I didn’t suppose I’d be capable to sleep. Mother and Dad had been fortunately unaware that I’d gone lacking once more, as a result of Veronica couldn’t convey herself to inform them. However she did spend many of the remainder of the evening in my room, holding my hand and telling me how sorry she is that that is my life.

The extra I instructed her that I’m completely effective, the more durable she trembled. However ultimately, we each fell asleep on high of the covers on my mattress, and this time it’s my cellphone ringing that wakes me, not some creep shining a flashlight into my eyes.

Numerous issues ache as I stumble off the bed to get my cellphone, which Veronica present in my automotive by Eden’s bookstore. My arms harm from banging on the metallic door, my throat from screaming, my shoulder from getting pulled by Break as he tried to save lots of Eden. An entire totally different sort of ache envelops me as I do not forget that. Deep in my chest, concern blended with remorse and anger. The sort of ache that nothing could make higher. The perfect you may hope for is a dulling. I hope they discover her quickly. I hope we get her again alive.

The dulling of the ache comes within the type of seeing Break’s identify on my cellphone’s display screen.

“Hey,” I say hoarsely.

“Good morning, my warrior woman,” he says. “I’m coming to see you.”

“Sure, please do,” I say.

He guarantees he’ll be right here in twenty minutes tops.

Veronica remains to be sleeping, and I drape the covers over her, go away a brief be aware telling her I’m with Break and to not fear, as a result of I couldn’t be safer than with him.

Then I take a fast bathe and am ready for him on the curb with my hair dripping moist. However I’m certain it’ll dry fast sufficient as we journey.

I really feel the rumble of his bike approaching lengthy earlier than I spot him coming down the road.

He parks proper beside me after which I’m in his arms, getting kissed in a method that makes all ache not possible.

“I used to be so afraid I wouldn’t see you for some time,” I whisper as soon as we pause and we’re simply standing there staring into one another’s eyes. His are blue just like the earth is blue when seen from house. All I want is to look into his eyes and I’ll by no means want anything. I can go anyplace after I look into his eyes. And but keep in his sturdy arms. Protected.

“Try to maintain me away,” he says and smiles. “I really like you as a lot as I really like my two arms. Extra even.”

I smile too. “Are you attempting to say you’re keen on me?”

He appears to be like confused for a second, the world in his eyes blurring barely, however then he smiles broadly and the solar comes out once more. Shiny and delightful and scorching sufficient to heat me without end.

“Yeah, I believe I’m.”

“Good, as a result of I really like you too,” I say.

He kisses me once more, softly at first, however with a rising depth that simply builds and builds. I hear each chook chirping round us, each rustle the wind makes within the bushes, each beat of his coronary heart. The darkness that was my thoughts is pushed so distant by all this gentle we’re creating it would as effectively not be there. And if he kisses me for yet another minute, it is going to be gone. By no means to return so long as he holds me.

“You prepared?” he asks breathlessly after some time, his lips and his eyes glinting.

“Are we going to our place within the woods?” I ask.

“The place ever you need.”

“I need our place within the woods,” I say.

Then he leads me to his bike and I hop on, holding him tight as we journey. The kisses dulled the ache, the journey erodes it. The clear, contemporary wind in my hair, the engine rumbling beneath me and his sturdy physique in my arms. It’s all I want. All I’ll ever want.

I by no means thought I’d get even a fraction of this happiness, this belonging, this sort of love in my life. And now I do know I not solely bought it, however may have it for the remainder of my life.

Good reminiscences will substitute all of the unhealthy. They’re already beginning to. And it received’t ever finish. Not for so long as we dwell. And never after we die both.

EPILOGUE

Some weeks later…

Break

The whole lot remains to be a complete mess. Eden remains to be gone. Ice has roughly misplaced his thoughts, as a result of we are able to’t discover her. I believe many of the remainder of us have too. So I’ve no proper to really feel nearly as good as I do, mendacity in a comfortable mattress with Ariel in my arms, her heat breaths tickling my chest, her silky hair draped over my arm like a blanket.

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