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Eli was the reason why I became who I did. My security, my best friend, the person I’d always trust.
Now I have no one. Not one. I have her.
The pain of losing Eli is still too raw to touch. Too much. When I close my eyes at night, it’s him who meets me on the other side. Close enough to see, too far to touch. I’m stuck with the memories of him that are embedded into my brain forever. Never again seen. Touched. His voice a painful melody that refuses to lull me to sleep at night.
I can feel Lilith beside me, her anxiety and heartbreak. I’ve stopped myself from seeing her, afraid that when I do, I might understand it was worth it. That losing Eli was worth it because he did it for her. Or even worse, noticing how she wasn’t worth it. Lost in my disarray of thoughts, I can’t seem to wrap my head around everything, much less my emotions.
I would kill for my sister, but for this child right here, I’d burn the entire world to the ground just to make sure she’s safe.
I loved him and he’s gone.
I smile down at her, swiping the tears from my cheeks and bringing one hand to cover Lilith’s and the other to squeeze her tighter into my chest. “I’ve got you now.”
One boy and one girl. Around the same age as Luna-Nox, but younger—by months, I’d say. Madison comes straight for me, holding her two little royal children side-by-side. “Priest! Look! Isn’t she cute!”
“I’ll cover you, Mayhem. You’ve got ten minutes tops.” Before I can ask what the fuck he’s talking about, I start moving toward the front door. The girls’ laughter halts my movement, but before I can second-guess myself, or Brantley, I turn the handle and step outside.
My heart stops beating as I take each step.
One. Two. The shadow moves out from behind the tree.
His fingers wrap around the curve of his hoodie.
The hoodie falls around the back of his neck and my heart fucking flatlines. Stumbling backward, I reach for the railing to break my fall when the smirk I’ve fucking bled for every night since he has been gone flashes in front of me.
Not in a memory.
In real fucki...
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Closing the distance, he reaches for the back of my neck and pulls me into his lips. They graze mine tenderly, but like the greedy bastard I am, I pull him closer by the back of his neck and kiss him. His tongue slips into my mouth, licking all the wounds he inflicted when he left, but opening new ones because I know he’s about to leave again.
“Would anything else ever be able to keep me away from you all?” I know the answer to that. Eli is a King first, even if he may not want it to be that way. He’ll always protect us at all costs, so whatever he’s doing, he’s doing it for us—or Luna, at least. The idea of Luna being in danger makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand, and that same anger that was running rampant inside of me since seeing Eli coming dangerously close to exploding.
The truth is, I never needed to play this stupid fucking game with either of them to know that they were my soul mates. Our love wasn’t the kind of love that was written in the cards… It was the kind of love that burned them.
