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Yet, Saint was able to tell her what he was, show her a glimpse of who he was. And she even knew he could eat fucking souls.
And she loved and bonded with him. Doesn’t that mean I have a chance as well?
"I wonder if you’d love me if you knew what I was.” It took everything in me to confess that, and there were those fluttering butterflies of nervousness.
“What makes you think I wouldn’t?” she countered and pressed herself further against me, her eyes showing her concern and attentiveness.
As if her touch wasn’t enough, she glided her hands along my chest until her arms were around my neck so I wouldn’t have anywhere else to run to if I even tried to take a cowardly way out. I was holding her just as tightly as she was holding me, and I needed this more than she could ever comprehend.
Her hold…her touch…the overflowing compassion and the addictive taste of her love.
"It’s not you.” It just made sense to speak freely of how I felt. “Sometimes…I get into my head so fucking much, to the point that I question everything. It’s so stupid and yet it’s a habit, I guess. One I need to break so I can be free of the internal agony it brings.”
The first step was saying it out loud. Accepting that this was one of the problems I had and needed to confront.
“I get it.” Her acceptance and understanding was like a trophy itself. “I deal with that too. It does feel stupid, doesn’t it? Yet, I think it happens to all of us. It’s like…the mundane part of us and it’s hard to overcome it alone.” She sweetly smiled and gave me a peck on my lips. “But we’re not alone.”
She was right.
“The new year is coming up. We should make it our new resolution.”
I couldn’t help but smirk at the idea. “They say most people don’t keep their resolutions.”
Now she laughed. “I said in the new year I’d cage fight once a week, go sky diving with Onyx since he fucking hates crazy heights, and go to all the parties and events with my best friend.” Her voice dipped at the last part, and the lines of sadness were obvious on her face. “That went south so fucking bad.”
“I know,” I whispered and pressed my forehead against hers. “It’s okay to be sad about it.”
“This weekend helped,” she quietly confessed. “I didn’t think it was possible, getting to hang with all of you under one roof for a solid day, let alone two. We’re going to have so much fucking work to deal with today.”
“It won’t be bad,” I assured her. “Milo, Loki, and even Viktor volunteered to take on the designated workloads this week. It won’t be too difficult to catch up.”
“The three of them are joining for sure?” She seemed both relieved and excited at the same time.
"Mhmm. Dimitris said they signed the contracts last night when you were sleeping in front of the fireplace with Neo and Saint. I guess we all needed this unexpected break. It was bittersweet but rather effective I think.”
“Me too,” she whispered. “I’m…scared of what the future has in store.”
“It’s okay to be scared.” Fuck, I was too. I think we all were because we’d never gone into war with people on the scale of the Coven. If we initiated it, it would rock the world, but if it was triggered by the Coven’s hasty actions in a public domain, all bets would be off and a war would be forced upon all of us.
Whether we like it or not, it’s bound to happen, and this tension between wolves and witches would need to be confronted or an unavoidable fight would ignite.
"But we have each other, right?” I whispered and watched her eyes lit up.
“Ya,” she hummed and looked at my lips. I smirked and kissed her, the tender touch helping me calm down once more. “We can throw the sky diving back on the list.”
She giggled. “Maybe Loki can entice Onyx and push him off a plane.”
“The day those two get along will be the apocalypse.”
Willow laughed. “They’re being better, don’t you think?”
“By a centimeter, if you want to measure it that way.” I chuckled. “What else do you want to do?”
“More dates,” she whispered. “Or moments like these. With you…and the others…normalcy some days. Even if it’s just once a week. I like it.”
Could I smile bigger? “I’d love to take you to a cage fight in Cali.”
That got her full attention. “We’d go all the way there to watch a fight?”
