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“Don’t got a name, huh?” Juck smiled. “Well, you do now, Bones.”
She was Bones, Wolf was gone, and the only kind of angel she could ever possibly be was an angel of death.
“Bones, look at me.”
Survive, Wolf growled.
Why? I wanted to scream at him. What is the godsdamned point?
“Don’t tell me you’d rather sit up here by yourself.” Trey grinned. “You’d miss my sparkling personality.”
“Like I’d miss a hole in the head,” I shot back at him.
“Just for the record, none of us are ever gonna be mad ’cause you woke up screaming, but we are gonna need to make sure you’re alright.”
I opened a cabinet to hide the smile I was fighting.
“Don’t leave,” I tried to say, but shivers violently wracked my body.
A gentle hand smoothed my hair back from my sticky, sweaty face. “I’m not goin’ anywhere, darlin’.”
“You know, Shortcake, I’m a little offended ’cause nothing could be more beautiful than these.” He flexed his biceps and Trey groaned.
“The fuck is everybody crying about?”
“You! What the fuck were you thinking?” I dropped to my knees, grabbing his arm so I could take his pulse as I glared at him through my tears.
“Aww, Shortcake, you do care!” Sam’s grin widened.
“Bones, why do you have to save everybody but yourself?”
“Fuckin’ hell.”
“I am trying to sleep here.”
“Sorry, Sam,” Trey said with a grin, not sounding sorry at all.
“How come I save your life and he gets the kiss...
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“You’re a river, Bones,” he said, squeezing my hands hard to get my attention. “You don’t break, you bend. If someone tries to control you, you find a new way around. People might think you’re just water, might think they have you contained, but you’re strong enough to cut a path through mountain rock and wild enough to wash everythin’ away when you rage.”
“Sky, don’t be a little bitch,” Raven snapped, startling me. “You wanted to help, so quit crying.”
Maybe I hadn’t had many friends in my life, but I felt more like a deadly virus than a friend.
“Godsdamnit, Bones, I’m here ’cause I love you,” he interrupted in a burst of emotion that shocked me into silence. “Have loved you practically since you saved my life on that rooftop. And I’m not expecting anything of you, but I’m here ’cause I want to be here with you.”
“If you don’t want me, I’ll find a way to live with that, but I’m willin’ to risk my heart just in case the only thing holdin’ you back is that fear.”
“He wants to kill me ’cause you care about me,” he said, his tone gleeful.
“Sorry, darlin’, you’re stuck with me.”
Cause first you kissed me and then, even worse, I heard you laugh. An’ I knew I wouldn’t be able to rest until I heard it again.”
“I’m sorry I made you wait.”
“I’d wait a thousand years for you.”
“You’d be long dead in a thousand years,” I said dryly, even though my heart pounded.
“It’d still be worth it,” he whispered, and th...
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“Not this. You don’t ever need to apologize for your scars.”
“These scars are proof you survived,” he interrupted softly. “That you walked through fire, and you came out the other side. You’re a godsdamned warrior, Bones, and the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.”
It still scared me, but it felt…it felt like healing, as though Trey had his own kind of healing power that flowed through me, piecing together all the broken parts of my soul.
“I know it’s a risk, but gods, Bones, don’t you want to live for something else besides just survivin’? What’s the point if you’re too scared to experience all the things that make life worth living? I am scared—fuckin’ terrified, of losing you. I don’t know how much time we have, but I do know I don’t want to miss a single second of lovin’ you.”
“Trey,” I said, frustrated, “it’s not that easy. I can’t just believe things are different and then they magically are.”
“Why not?” he asked. “Maybe if you put good things out into the world, good things will find you.”
You’re a river. You don’t break, you bend. Mac’s comforting words rang hollow now. I couldn’t find a way to bend this time because I hadn’t broken, I’d shattered.
