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Chapter Eighteen

Leon

“Okay, I’ve got a question.” I raised my drink at Phillip, who was sitting on the other side of Draco at the bar where the three of us sat. AJ said he had work to do, so he passed on going out. Meh. To each his own, I guess.

My eyes peered back to Lilith, dancing in her cage with Rose in there with her.

“If you can see the future, how come you haven’t married your soul mate already? I bet you know who she is.” He was already rich, and powerful, but he didn’t have a woman.

Phillip groaned, and his head fell to the bar for a few seconds.

“It’s really hard. This gift is so tedious. I know who she is, but everything has to play out how it’s supposed to and when it’s supposed to. Rushing the order of everything could cause a different outcome.” I guess I got that, but I was far too impatient a man to do that, though.

“Think of it like a giant puzzle piece. I can see the bigger picture, but I have to put the pieces in one by one. There’s no way to know what matches until you get a few to click together and go from there. It’s not like I have the cover of the puzzle box to guide me, either. Just percents and possibilities.”

“That’s depressing,” I muttered, and truthfully it was. I would hate knowing that every single move could change everything. He had to walk a fine line in the hopes of everything working out for the best.

“But she is perfect for me.” He grinned, trying to lighten the mood.

I bet she was. My eyes glanced back to the girls in the cage.

“So. When are you finally going to accept your marriage?” Phillip looked at me and gave me a knowing look.  Lilith said some things earlier that made me remember a bit of our night together. I still didn’t have the whole picture, but I knew enough. I wanted to marry Lilith. She was crazy, beautiful inside and out, and I had to have her that night. She had issues, that’s for damn sure. But I had them too.

I took a deep breath but didn’t answer. Things had changed, and I was finding myself more and more drawn to her since I stopped fighting being around her.

Draco huffed, and for some reason that made me smile.

“Your mortal life is short; live every moment you can, even if in the end it didn’t last long.” He gave me a half-smile before standing up and moving toward the cage. Both Phillip and I watched as he opened the door and slowly helped Rose out of it before starting to dance with her.

“I love seeing her so happy,” Phillip commented as we both watched them.

“They do seem it.”

“Yeah. They’ve got a long road ahead of them, like all of us.  I’m trying so hard to make sure everything happens so they will have the future they want together.” His voice was harder. Phillip lived to make his sister happy; she was everything to him. Anyone with eyes could see it.

“You’ve got happiness in your future too you know.” He piped up, and my eyes turned to him only to see him staring at Lilith.

I didn’t know what to say to that. For the first time in years, happiness didn’t seem like an unattainable concept anymore. The music changed to a song from the eighties, and Lilith got all excited. She jumped up and down then started swaying to the beat with a big grin on her face. She knew how to enjoy her life, with all the small moments it provided.

“Thanks, man,” I told him before standing. I used to be someone of action, not afraid to take big leaps of faith and enjoy my life. I was a boy then, and now the man had to step up to the plate. My body was moving toward her with one purpose. Devour.

My eyes were on Lilith as she gripped the bars, gaze on me as she moved her body like a snake. Her face pressed against the cage, and her tongue crept out from her lips to lick the metal, giving me all kinds of thoughts of her lips licking something else that was hard as steel.  She watched me with pure excitement in her eyes, knowing I was coming for her. Her siren song had finally captured this sailor.

A smirk graced my face as I did what I had wanted to do weeks ago.

My hands gripped the bars with ease, and slowly pulled them back so I wouldn’t break them in half.  Once they were opened enough for her to fit through, my right hand left the cage and went behind her head to grasp onto her neck, moving her forward to my waiting lips.

Her face lit up, and then I wasn’t the only one rushing for this kiss to happen. Her body surged to mine, and our lips crashed, her grin contagious as our lips danced in a mixture of tongue, teeth, and groans.

Her arms wrapped themselves around my neck, and her legs did the same around my hips. She was heaven against my body.

We were both lit on fire in our need for each other’s taste. She pushed, then pulled me back in, like the ocean I loved.

“I know we’re married, and this is going to sound so fucking chick-like. But I wanna date you. I wanna get to know you, in and out,” I said through our lips colliding back and forth.