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“Is he going to make it?” Katherine whimpered as she gripped his arm to her.

I pulled a chair up next to her. “He is. The doctors said that it was a mericle that he was alive and that is a good sign. It means that he is a fighter.”

“This is all of my fault.

“No.” I put my hand on her side. “This is Alastor’s fault. But he got what he deserves and now we’re all finally free of him.”

“Promise?”

“I promise, babe. You’re finally safe.”

Epilogue

Katherine

Months later

Completely protected—that was exactly how Reese made me feel.

It took a little over a week for Jett to be released from the hospital. He had suffered multiple stab wounds and lost an enormous amount of blood, but that man was nothing if not a stronger than hell.

After everything got cleared up with the cops from that night and the investigation was closed, we were all finally able to get on with our lives to the best of our abilities.

A piece of my soul was killed along with Alastor that night—the blackened portion he had burned away for so many years. Getting rid of the awful burden was the first step in my healing.

Slowly, I started to pick my life up off of the floor. Reese taught me how to drive, got me a job as a bartender at the Red Crow not too far from his house, and let Jett move in with us. It took me a while, but I finally started to branch out and make friends with the other ladies who hung around Reese’s club.

Jett immediately jumped at the opportunity to join the organization, going through the shortest prospect period in the history of the Unacceptables—which wasn’t surprising.

Everything felt so right. Everything was finally normal in my life.

Things were still new to me, but I was learning every day. The hardest thing to get used to was cellphones, but they were extremely useful and pretty fun once I started to get the hang of them.

Sitting on the couch watching a new-to-me episode ofSeinfeld, Reese looked over at me from the other side of the couch.

“Hey, Kat?” he asked while biting his lip.

“Yeah?” I narrowed my eyes at him as I realized how nervous he was in that moment.

“Marry me?” He inched closer, grabbing my hand. “I don’t want to rush you into anything and I will completely understand if you don’t want to, but I really have come to care for you. I completely and wholly love you and I would love nothing more than to spend the rest of my life with you as my wife.”

“I don’t know how to be a wife,” I naïvely responded.

“It’s easy. We do exactly what we are doing now, just as husband and wife,” he explained.

“I think I already know my answer to that.” I could feel my cheeks burning.

“I need to hear you say yes, babe.” He kissed my cheek as a smile raked across my face.

I leaned into to him, pulling his arms around me. “Yes, Reese. I would love to marry you.”

The End.