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“I might hate you, Aster, but I see your fucking pain. I know you’ve been hurt. So don’t fucking tell me you don’t need protected, even if what you need protected from is yourself.”
Logan looked at me like I was the treasure. The reason. The destination.
“A boy! We get a boy!” Juni shouted, and she threw herself around her mom’s neck, hugging her tight. Jud wrapped himself around both of them. He leaned down and kissed his wife, and I saw Salem’s eyes were filled with tears. He kissed them away, murmured something none of us could hear. So tender. So sweet.
“Little Star. One tiny star hidden in a vast cosmos. The only one I can see.” She choked out a pained sound. “Even if I
My dark defender. My soul’s destination. My North Star.
“Little Star…marry me because I’m tired of looking at the sky without you in it.” I threw myself at him, my arms around his neck. “Yes.”
“If you think my falling in love with your daughter was unwise, then you’re the biggest fool of all. Loving her is the only thing I’ve ever done right.”
“Beauty. My heart. My poetry,” he murmured as his fingertips fluttered down the slope of my neck. “You are every word I’ve ever written.” I could almost see the scattering of stars strewn around us. As if each call of my heart had been hung in the sky.
“There is nothing I want more than to have a family with you.” “Are you sure?” She blinked up at me. “I promise you, Aster Rose. I promise.” I lifted her hand and kissed her ring, and I leaned in to murmur in her ear, “And I’m going to make sure that becomes Aster Rose Lawson soon. Very soon.”
“Run away with me, Little Star?” “Running away with you is all I’ve ever wanted to do.” His forehead dropped to mine. “Never look back.” I curled both my hands around his wrists, my eyes dropping closed when I promised, “Never look back.”
