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“Ooh, baptizing Hoe Bag in the pool?” His lips thinned. “Her name is Ginny. And I wouldn’t call holding her head under the water until she almost drowns a baptism.” Bailey shrugged. “She was praying.”
“You really should have shown more interest when my friend tried warning you about our old job,” said Havana. “If you had, she would have told you that we used to work for the Movement.”
I’m not a full person without her, and I don’t wish I was. Because the parts of me she took with her when she died were all hers to take.”
He merely nodded before passing Aspen a takeout cup. “Got you that vanilla shit you like.” Aspen’s mouth curved as she took the latte. “Aw, thanks.” “Didn’t you get us anything?” Bailey asked him. “Thought about it,” he said. “That was as far as I got.”
“Die, Thing, die!” shouted Yasmin, throttling her sister. Madisyn cursed. “This is not cool, kids! Not cool at all.”
Bailey blinked up at her. “Huh? Oh, yeah. I was just wondering if caterpillars actually know what’s gonna happen when they build a cocoon for themselves, or if they’re later like ‘whoa, what’s with the wings and shit?’”
His cat hissed and clawed at him, wanting him to move, move, move and get to her. And the internal battle that Tate had been waging against the urge to brand her just … ignited. It became a rampant storm inside him that whirled and whirled and whirled. It then abruptly swept outward, smashing his mental shields into nothing. Like that, a primal knowledge hit him so hard it almost made his knees give out.
For months, he’d subconsciously prevented that primal knowledge from sinking in. Right then, he didn’t fight it. He let it take hold. Let himself accept it. Havana Ramos was his true mate.
“I would have taken the chance.” If for no other reason than that she’d have always wondered what could have been if she hadn’t. His inky blue eyes warmed. “Yeah?” She gave a slow nod. “Yeah.” “Even knowing we could have crashed and burned?” “You and your cat are worth the risk.”
