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September 25 - September 30, 2025
She is my dream. She is my piece of paradise. She is my inevitable. My composure begins to crumble with every step she takes toward me. Tears well in my eyes, but I smile for her. Always for her.
Pae’s commitment to me lacks any hesitancy. “I do.” My heart stutters. It is broken and healing and missing Kitt beside me. But it is full. She is what my scarred heart beats for. I tilt her face toward mine before clutching it in my trembling hands. “I do.” My voice is heavy with emotion. “In every lifetime, I do.”
I hold Paedyn against me. My wife. My eye in the storm.
“So you don’t forget who I am,” she whispers against my lips. “And what am I?” I trace my thumb along her bottom lip. “A fool. A cocky bastard?” Her voice is steady. “You are mine, Malakai.”
Beads of water trail down her bared neck as I greedily take in the curve of her mouth. Like a reflex, reverence softens my gaze, coats my voice. “There is that smile I have been waiting to memorize.” Paedyn blinks up at me in the rain, grin widening. She twines slick arms around my neck before her cold nose is brushing mine. “And you have all the time in the world to admire it.”
Kai shakes his head at me before grasping my hand. “Still as vicious as ever.” “You love it.” “I love you,” he murmurs. “Foolishly.”
A small body tumbles from the maze of crop to scurry toward us. That shock of gray hair blows around her face, obscuring the excitement displayed there. With a large ear of corn gripped between tiny fingers, she runs into her father’s awaiting arms. “That’s the one you were looking for?” Kai asks, examining her loot. “You’re sure this is the best corn in all of Tando?” “I’m sure, Daddy!” She shoves the vegetable into his hand and promptly reaches for me. I pull her into my arms, trying to ignore how big she has gotten in the last three years. Resting on my hip, she runs her small fingers
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