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Rainer will want you no matter what. Are you blind or just foolish? Or simply afraid to let him love you?”
Give your fear a name and it loses its power. What would you name this one?”
She was as frightened to let him love her as she was of losing him.
I’d let you ruin me a thousand more times if only to escape one moment of feeling this broken.”
There was no arming herself against this version of Xander. Cecilia thought she wanted answers from him, but now she only wanted oblivion. Perhaps that was exactly the thing he was chasing as well.
suddenly made plain: love versus loved. She was kissing a memory while he was kissing a wish.
while he’d felt nothing but relief in kissing her, she’d felt only regret.
The more he saw it—the more certain he was that she loved Rainer more—the harder Xander tried to beat the odds.
His love hadn’t brought her back to life. It had sent her from this world. It nearly sent him, too. Now he was left trying to learn how to live with half a heart.
She’s a warrior, but she lets you stand in her blind spot. If she didn’t love and trust you deeply, she’d never allow that. If you paid attention, you’d notice she does it for no other. Not even the king.”
You have a direct line to her heart. You read her effortlessly. You’re always right beside her. She looks to you when she’s worried, not him.”
“Where did he touch you?”
“I’m going to remind you right now. So just make sure you are paying attention. I’m going to show you how much I want you every day, all day, always.”
“Say it, Cece. Say the words I want to hear.” “I’m just for you, Rain.”
“Cece, let go. I’ve got you and I’m going to keep you,”
For so long, she’d felt so unworthy of him. His goodness. His joy. His kind, open heart. But when he connected with her, she felt so powerful and lovely.
I came out of the dark different and it’s not an excuse but I am still healing. I’m deeply flawed. I’m trying, and I’m yours—invisible scars and all.”
“Your heart and mine are the same,” Rainer started. “Broken in all the same places.
You astonish me, Cece. All the time.
I fall more in love with you all the time. The only thing that scares me is that you won’t need me anymore.”
“I don’t need you. I want you, and that’s much better. No one has ever loved me better, and there’s no one else I want to spend my life with.”
Everything I feel with you is so powerful. That feeling between us that is only between us. I don’t feel that with him. Being with you is like coming home.
It’s like it will never be enough. Like, I can’t get close enough. Like I can’t touch enough of you. It feels like it was worth every bad thing that ever happened to me.”
I know it would be if he saw what I see when we’re together.” “And what do you see?” she asked. He smiled and kissed her. “The most beautiful thing in the world—your heart.”
Two best friends who guided each other out of the dark over and over again. Two dreamers who grew up but refused to grow out of their love of a good story. Two souls so entwined with each other they grew stronger together.
Perhaps the war had put a little darkness into pure and steady Rainer McKay after all.
Rain is absolutely diabolical and I’m dyinggggg 😂😂😂😂
“Do you like it, Cece? Do you like that I can’t get enough of you? Do you like when I fuck you in public? Do you wish someone was watching?” Rainer whispered.
I can’t stop screamingggggg
“Would you like to feel his eyes on you? Would you like to remind him how gorgeous you are when you fall apart for me and only me? Would you want to make him jealous?”
It was no longer a show for Xander. Cece was entirely focused on Rainer.
“Xander, I’m so glad you could make it, but I’ve realized what I thought was a threat was actually nothing at all. You’ll forgive me for wasting your time,” Rainer said.
She can not only create bonds between witches and guardians, but destroy them.
OH GOD NOOOOOO
“Rainer, I cannot remember a time before loving you.
You share all my burdens, whether I let you or not. You are my favorite person in the world, and you are my family.”
your love is worth saving, even at the end of the world. Rainer Jordan McKay, will you marry me?”
Home was not a place. Home was who he ran to when life got hard, when the sky got dark and his heart was broken and everything in him felt unsettled.
Cecilia was his home.
It was the way she could look at all the hard and dark things in the world, could sit with the immense heaviness of a broken heart, and still choose to love. She could look into the face of torture and still reach out with an open heart.
She held it up to the light so he could see the words Brave with my heart written inside the band.
I will continue to be brave with my hand and brave with my heart when it comes to you. No more doubts. No more hiding. Every day I choose you.”
I’ll remind you who you are when you forget, because you are undeniable and unforgettable, Cecilia Juliette Reznik.”
Loath as he was to admit it, Rainer McKay was truly gifted.
He hoped the humor would dispel her anger, but instead of kissing him, she punched him in the face.
“I don’t want your apology. I hate that after all this time you still haven’t learned not to take my choices from me. That is unforgivable.”
OH SHIT
“What did you wish for the night of the Summer Firestorm meteor shower?” “I can’t tell you unless it comes true.”
It definitely happened in little ways over time, but there was a moment I knew for sure. It was when my mom was dying.”
‘Mama, I’ll take care of Rain. You can go. I’ll make sure he’s okay. You don’t have to worry. I’ll love him enough for both of us.’”
But the moment Cecilia said those words, the moment he felt the truth of them in his chest, Rainer knew what real love was.
“Then Cece laid down next to my mother and told her to share any memories that she wanted to make sure I had.
She knew what he’d needed, and she’d given it to him without hesitation or tending to her own grief.
“You know you can’t have her, right? I’m not letting her go again.”
😈😈😈😈 I love when Rain is blunt
