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They flirted, they slept together, and now he thinks they’re married and she thinks he should die in a fire.
If my Nani knew I was having this conversation, she’d be clutching her heart right now.
“I pick B’shit,” N’dek says. “Bridget,” she corrects, but she beams at him as she goes to N’dek, gives him an awkward high-five, and then moves to stand next to me and S’bren.
Devi is so filled with joy, with a love of life. I need that. I want that. I feel whole when I am near her.
I know in this moment that no matter what happens, Devi is mine. I will tear my khui from my chest if it dares to resonate to another.
My heart stops again. “Why can’t you be together?” If she says resonance to N’dek, I’m going to sit on the floor next to her and start bawling.
“I’m out of the games today,” Sam declares, passing her cup to G’hail to try. “I’m going shrimping. That tastes awesome.”
It’s the first time I’ve been compared to anyone’s mom, and it’s pretty damn weird.
win.” I lean against the back wall of the cave, shivering, and wait for my man to come rescue me, like the saddest damsel in distress ever. If he needed sciencing, though, I would totally be there. But fighting monsters? I’ll leave that to the professionals.
You are the strongest man I have ever met and nothing you said or did could make me think you are ‘less’ somehow. I don’t care if you ass-scoot across the entire village—I will still find you sexy as fuck.”
