Daisy's Decision (Icehome, #15)

by Ruby Dixon

But that’s one thing about this world. It keeps throwing punches at us and we learn how to roll with them.”

Every day it is silent is another day I can dream that D’see will be mine.

“Life is not about fair,” he agrees. “Life is just life.”

I will make it more challenging for her. If she wishes to have me as a mate, I want her to show me how deeply she wishes for this. I will not make this easy on her.

O’jek touches my chin again. “D’see, you want this. I want this. If we are truly going to grab our lives, why wait any longer?

Have we not been told all our lives how pleasant a resonance mate tastes?

I hate that I think of R’kh and his words. She is using you to get what she wants.

Nothing says I cannot use her back, though the idea leaves a foul taste in my mouth. A mating should be sacred. It should be two perfect halves coming together to make a whole and creating a kit between them. This feels…off. And yet when D’see smiles at me and slinks forward, I know I will not be able to refuse her.

I cannot refuse this femal...

He’s mine. My mate. I like those words. I like them a lot.

I’m a little weirded out by their banter. Then again, they do love to gossip and boss people around. Maybe they’ve been friendlier than I realized all this time.

It’s actually a situation I’m familiar with—pretending everything is fine. Didn’t I do that all the time when I was with Johani? Acting as if nothing was wrong even as I felt more alone by the day? This is nothing.

I hate his words. And I hate that they are right.