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One of the members of the Trinity. It was…. The Defender. It was The fucking Defender.
“You’ll be under my protection for the rest of your life. You understand?” The rest of my life? “You mean until we figure things out?” He shook his head, gaze intent. “They’re never going to stop looking for you, Gracie.” He nailed that coffin shut. “You laid on top of me to save me, even though you knew nothing they could have done would hurt me. For. The. Rest. Of. Your. Life.”
“My girlfriend already has a Hello Kitty. Do you want this one?”
“For me?” He slid me a quick glance. “No, it’s for the other demon that insists on sleeping in my bed.”
Maybe it meant nothing. Maybe this was just two people who both liked affection. Two people who hadn’t allowed ourselves to grow attached to others. Two horny virgins. Or maybe it was something else.
“Do you really think there’s a future for me without you in it?”
“It hurts my feelings that I’m right here, that you’re right there, and you still think that you’re ever going to be alone again.”
“I want you in my life, this mate shit aside. Don’t come up with a million different bullshit excuses why I don’t. I care about you. I worry about you. And I’m going to come back as soon as I can so we can finish this conversation, you got it? We’ve put it off long enough,”
But unlike you, I was never lonely,” he explained calmly. I closed my eyes. “Until I was. Until I was on another continent and wondering what you were up to. Until I was in bed, by myself, and I didn’t like it,”
“I missed your three thousand questions and the way you hold my hand. I missed my little monster. Missed her a lot,”
“It isn’t, but I know you. And you’re not supposed to be anyone else’s Gracie, you’re my friend. My Gracie.
“You’re one of the only people on this world, in this entire fucking universe, who never has to be scared of me.”
“There is no place I wouldn’t look for you. Seven miles deep in the ocean. On a planet in a distant galaxy. I would go anywhere for you if someone took you, Gracie,”
“I didn’t want to like you. I didn’t plan on feeling this protective of you and your smile and your heart. Definitely didn’t want to fall in love with you and your secrets. But then you had to go off and say, ‘You snooze you lose, motherfucker,’ and I knew my life was never going to be the same after that.”
“I don’t think my grandmother would be cruel enough to find us a partner and have us lose them so soon. My healing will help us age together. You’ll live as long as I do. We can haunt whoever you want after that.”
