SKYLA.
I don’t know what it is… but the moment when he looks over his shoulder, something inside of me makes my heart clench.
The distance between us suddenly feels terrifyingly huge and for the first time I ask myself, what are we without the one we love?
“Sky…” Azura tugs me inside and the door slam shuts behind me, making my head jerk My breath hitches, and I stop in my tracks. I suddenly feel… I don’t know, I’m unable to explain it.
I glance back at the door.
“Hey… what’s wrong?” Azura asks softly, as both look at me intently.
I shake my head. I don’t know… I don’t know what’s wrong with me… I just…
“He’ll be fine. He’s one of the strongest people I have come across.” Leo says quietly.
“Yeah… I know… I just… it’s fine.”
It isn’t. I just feel… fuck, it’s weird. I can’t even explain it.
Is it because I know he’s finding this hard?
Is it because I know he’ll feel guilty for tearing down the veil from his mother’s eyes?
I swear, I’m going to make sure we are all there for her, too. Royce and his family will never be alone.
They have and will always have all of us, and we will be that support system for them.
“Come on, let’s get inside. It’s going to be fine,” Leo says as he leads the way.
Azura looks at me with concern as she guides me down the hall, holding my hand.
“Are you sure you’re ok?” she repeats softly.
I shake my head, unable to explain this emotion that is tearing me up inside.
in the car just made me feel a bit
I’m getting fucking soft.
are seated in our seats, around one of the many large circular tables. The tables are covered with maroon tablecloths and in the
and his Beta, Uncle Dustbin as I like to call him. You got to love him, but still he’s an A class snitch, always keeping an eye on us when we were growing up.
fifty percent of the
Sad life.
steps back and heads towards our
Leo, neither says anything but it’s like a silent exchange before Leo takes his seat, two seats down
from the way he just sat down, that he plays a
that despite how calm and relaxed he appears to be, he’s assessing the area and
the same table as Uncle Liam, Mama Red, and
the snake, who’s dressed in
is… his hair looks a little longer too… but there’s something else about him
Royce a little too much, but his skin
he isn’t hiding behind the fakeness that he usually does. Instead, he’s watching me intently. Gone
to my neck and a small smile crosses his lips. But there’s
He knows.
unease and I feel a ripple of energy rush through me. Aleric’s
all I can hear is the steady, strong
and I
bringing me out of that oddness. Although her gaze stays
time
for defeating him, it’s on me… I know that. Maybe not now… but it comes down to him and
it but I’m with
I feel like he’ll get
But the question is, would
are we
even I don’t
show me the
from her, ever since the day Royce marked me.
The place is
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