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They were covering us, I realised. With their wing. They had protected us.
Then the beastie turned their head to look up at Rig with big, pitch black eyes, and I got my first proper look at their face. Their dark, greenish-black hair was no longer falling over it in unwashed waves. I exhaled a sharp, quiet puff of breath, glad my mask muffled the sound. They were the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.
“Wait.”
“He reached for you,”
“What?”
“When you turned, he reached for you. He doesn’t want you to leave. I think he’s scared. Will you just stay while Apollo does this?”
“He’s in shock and freaked out and terrif...
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“Do you… want me to read to you?”
“I read one of the others while I waited for you.”
While he’d waited for me.
“I heard your voice and it… cut through everything else—through all the noise in my head. It sounded… important.”
“Wait… what’s your real name?”
After a moment, One’s face broke into a huge, beautiful grin, and I knew that was it. I was utterly smitten. Totally, one hundred percent gone for this strange, winged monster with creepy black eyes and ghostly, green-tinged skin.
“A...
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“We need Moth.”
“Please don’t go,”
“I’ll… I will worry for you.”
“I’m happy for you. You two are so cute it makes my teeth hurt. And I would be a terrible friend if I didn’t encourage you to keep doing whatever it was you two were doing last night, because by the sounds of it, it was exquisite. Please, keep having as much freaky monster sex as you can. I’m living vicariously through you.”
“You are wonderful, my sweet Gage, but you’re being a bit of a martyr about this.”
And then, for reasons known only to the deepest, darkest recesses of my anxiety-driven brain, I blurted out, “I love you.” Aury froze instantly. When I realised what I’d said, my entire body went hot with embarrassment. Panicking, I ripped my hand out of his grip and fluttered it uselessly, casting about for something, anything, to say to distract him. “Gage.” Aury turned me to face him, his black eyes so beautiful and warm as he smiled down at me. “I love you too.” He laughed, and my throat ached at the sight of his happiness. “You have terrible timing. I can’t even kiss you.”
This was my sweet, gentle, kind monster. He was still my Aury.
“I’ve left something for you on the nightstand, but it’s not a big deal and when I come back, I don’t want you to mention it.” I frowned, looking up from my book. “What—” But he had already slipped out of the room. I looked over at the nightstand and froze when I saw the little wooden figurine on it. With big wings. One damaged.
When Gage’s human life came to an end, I would follow him. I knew it deep in the core of me already—there was no question. He was my mate.
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