Page 135 of Twisted Redemption

Now, standing on the balcony of our suite and looking over the ocean, I shiver at the thought. The air is warm, but the fact that I almost lost Blaze sends a chill through me every time I remember it.

“Hey. Did class go okay?”

I sigh happily at Blaze’s arms wrapping around me from behind. I’m careful not to lean back into him, too afraid of hurting him.

My semester started a few days ago, and since we’re currently hiding out, I had to switch to online classes at the last minute. Can’t say I mind, though. Tuning in on my laptop with the sounds of the ocean in the background is quite lovely.

“It went fine. Did you take your meds after your nap?”

Blaze grunts. He’s on strict orders to take it easy and take his pain killers and antibiotics, neither of which he’s keen on doing. I had to promise I’d sit on his face later to get him to take them this morning.

“I can think of something else you can bribe me with this time,” he murmurs lowly in my ear, running his lips down my neck.

“I’m not letting you fuck me, Blaze. Not until the doctor clears you for more strenuous activities.”

He groans. “I can go slow.”

“Mmm. Not when you lose all self control. Which I know you will. Besides, I’m having fun being the one on top.”

“Fuck,” he mutters, nipping at my neck. “I hate that you know me so well.”

“I don’t believe you.”

He smiles, kissing my bare shoulder. “Good. I love every single thing about you.”

His words make my heart melt until its nothing more than a mushy puddle. “I love you,” I whisper.

Turning, I slide my hands down his arms until our fingers are laced together. With my head tilted up, I smile at the way the sun is shining off his golden strands.

“Perfect,” he says, pressing a kiss to my forehead.

“Yes,” I reply, “you are.”

He fits his mouth to mine with a moan. If I could pause time so we could stay in this moment forever, I would. Nothing could ever feel better than being with Blaze.

When he pulls away, his eyes still closed, I say, “This is your daily reminder that I’m never leaving you again. Never, Blaze.”

With his forehead resting against mine, he murmurs, “I know.”

And for the first time all week, I think I finally believe him.

There are a lot of uncertainties ahead of us. I know that. But the one thing that I’m not uncertain about anymore is that Blaze is mine, forever, and I’m his. I still have so many fears, so many anxieties. But he isn’t one of them anymore. And, somehow, he’s entrusted me with his heart fully.

I’m not naive enough to think our future is perfect. There will be hard times. Arguments. We’ll hurt each other. That’s how human relationships work.

I don’t know everything our lives will hold.

But there’s one thing I do know, and it’s that Blaze will fight for me no matter what. And I, him.

We aren’t living a fairytale. But it’s everything else, two people so entangled with each other that there’s no hope of us ever separating. But the nice thing, I think, is that we don’t want to. We’re not meant to.

“My Daisy,” he murmurs, running his nose up the side of my cheek, the exact way he did the first time he made love to me.

My heart swells. “My Blaze. Never let me go.”

The smile he gives me lights up every broken, fractured part of me. “Never.”

THE END.