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Holding grief within only made it boil, bubble and spit until it burned its way out, so it was better to let it flow free and face it head on.
I didn’t want his final memory of me to be some selfish declaration. I wanted him to think of every good moment we’d shared and all the life we’d lived together, even if it wasn’t enough.
“I know. But just in case the stars have other plans, then I want you to know I’m fucking privileged to get to face it with you,”
But if destiny was kind enough to allow me to be her whipped bitch, then I was all for it.
What we were doing was so risky, but not doing anything had to be worse.
She can’t touch my soul; it’ll be whole and waiting for you when this is over. So let me bleed for you, my Queen. It would be a fucking honour.”
“Family loves without condition. I’ve forged my own family through determination, sacrifice, and dedication. They aren’t my blood, but they are bound to me deeper than you will ever be. You don’t just get to love me and expect that to be enough.
“It doesn’t take an army to kill a king,”
“Can someone speak a language I understand and point me at an enemy so I can kill it?” I yelled and Tory fisted her hand in the back of my shirt, pulling herself up beside me on the wall. “Hang on, I speak semi-fluent ASS,” she said
“I need a free hand to cast,” Caleb said, slipping his hand from Tory’s and she pushed her hand up the back of his shirt to press her palm to his skin there instead. Could have rolled his sleeve back and touched his arm, but whatever Trevor.
“Just because I love her, doesn’t mean I love you any less. I’m not abandoning you by wanting her.”
“I didn’t ask for your opinion on it, just for the spell in question.”
“Because I’m a fearless badass and you know it,” I suggested but he just snorted. “More like reckless to the point of idiocy, but sure, let’s squeeze through a creepy gap in a wall where anything could be waiting to drag us into the depths of this place, never to be seen again.”
When Geraldine seemed satisfied by all she had seen, she moved along to the next table where Justin the asshole now sat prim and proper with a napkin draped across his lap as he cut a bagel into bite sized pieces with a knife and fork like a fucking heathen.
As if turning a blind eye to us and all the horrors of this place somehow made him less responsible for it. But cruelty still happened whether you acknowledged it or not.
“Maybe you can prove that on the battlefield beside me one day.”
At least they knew how to play this game of politics. They’d have known all the right things to say and how to spin every angry outburst to their advantage. I was just going to have to hope that brutal honesty would win these people over instead.
“So easy to promise the world when you don’t hold it in your grasp.”
Things were not perfect, but problems could always be solved.
I hate highlighting anything from this character because he sucks but I like this.
“Regret is the enemy of the future.”
He was my friend, and I was his. And there was no truer love in my life than that.
“Sometimes feelings are only obvious to the people experiencing them.
Xavier frowned at them like he knew I was just trying to placate him with the treat, but he snatched them up and started angrily munching all the same.
“Maxy boy?” I asked, and that scoundrel of a sea lion looked my way with a frown on his brow. “If I were in mortal peril, would you risk all to save me, throw yourself between me and death, give up everything just to see me survive?” “Of course I would, Gerry,” he said, his eyes softening like the wet kipper I had suspected he was. “Thank you for admitting that most crippling weakness,” I replied. “As such, I shall be in a differing group to you, ensuring that the mission is put before anything else and nothing is risked on account of my worthless existence.”
“But you’re sad or angry, or maybe both. Hang on, I’ll ask Max.”
“Plenty of Betas like to think they’re all Alpha, amica, but it’s a sad reality that far too many of them fall flat when put to the test.”
“You mean, just take this ring to Tyler?” I asked dryly. “You’re right,” she sighed. “It is far too much for your simple mind to handle.”
“I saw…something,” I said, pushing to my feet. “Well, bravo, young whippersnapper. Your vivacious description doth bring a tear to my eye,” Geraldine said dryly.
We arrived on the beach where the party was already underway, and I jumped down, jogging across the sand and grabbing a bottle of rum out of an apple crate someone had left there. Probably the same someone who shouted ‘hey!’ as I walked away with his rum, but such is life.
“Why don’t you run along and find your lover boy?” he sneered. “Are you going to tell him about how you spread your legs for me the other night and moaned my name like it was your favourite star in the sky?”
Oh shit
Why was everything so much easier in the dark? Sex, secrets, snacks.
“Why are you so calm?” she spat. “Why are you so angry?” I countered.
“Trust me, I am bothered about several things, but getting in a blind rage about them isn’t productive.”
“How about you lie down and spread those pretty thighs for me like a good girl and I’ll use my tongue to make you like me again,”
I turned to Orion triumphantly and he gave me a dry look that said he wasn’t pleased I’d just found a solution to a problem he didn’t want me to solve.
