Chapter 57
Chapter 57.
Nyx
Clam
Champ was in custody. We had a way to bring down my father. My baby was safe. There was no better outcome for what had been a truly spectacularly failed mission, but seeing the way Rhyson was looking at me broke my heart.
I worried he wouldn’t be able to get the words out.
“You don’t have to say it,” I told him quietly. “Truly, you don’t. I know that Gemma is your mate, and I accept that. I don’t want you to feel guilty. We would not be the first set of wolves to have a child
but not be mated. We can work this out. And if you can’t look at me without seeing my father, I
understand. Sometimes I can’t look in the mirror without thinking about who sired me.”
“Stop talking,” Rhyson growled. He hadn’t moved from the door. “You were such an optimist when
you first came to me at the foot of the mountain, and I suffocated that with the way I treated you. I hope this is you defensively talking to me, because otherwise, I won’t be able to handle being so casually dismissed.”
“I…” My throat dried up. “What are you talking about?”
“After everything that we have been through, everything we have shared, you’re just going to let me
go?”
“She’s your fated mate, Rhyson. No one stands in the way of that.” I couldn’t figure out why he was so angry. I was trying to make this as uncomplicated as possible.
“Close your eyes, Nyx,” he said hoarsely. When I didn’t immediately comply, he cleared his throat.
Please.”
Taken aback by the soft plea, I closed my eyes. Maybe this was what he needed to make the announcement easier. “I know your father has taken away your ability to physically form a bond. I can’t imagine how that must feel, but I know the strength in you. You may not be able to communicate with your wolf, but you and she took down your tormentor together. She knew you needed strength, and she fed that to you. Neither one of you needed a physical bond to make that
happen.”
He wasn’t wrong. My wolf and I might not ever speak to each other, but we had our work-around. Was this his way of telling me that I would someday find my own mate? I might actually kill him if
he said that.
“I need you to remember that. I need you to rely on that instinct and truly ask yourself if you think it’s possible that I’ve bonded with anyone else. To think that I belong to anyone but you. No, don’t
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open your eyes. Don’t give me that withering look and change the subject. I won’t put this off any
longer. Not with you throwing yourself headlong into danger because you think my happiness is
worth more than yours. Because you think nobody cares about you.”
That was not what I was doing, was it? A retort rose to my lips, but I heard the desperate plea in his voice, so I didn’t let it out. Instead, I focused on what I felt, and it was so hard because I already
knew that I loved him. I knew that he was it for me.
And how would I know that without a bond?
“You’re not hers,” I whispered. “You didn’t form a bond with Gemma. Then why…”
“Elonso had old information. There was a time when everyone assumed that Gemma would mate with Marrow or me. Hell, when we were younger, we used to fight over her. Then, Marrow left and had a kid, and I looked at her one day and knew that we would never be more than friends. The day before she left with my parents, we had a huge fight. She wanted to go in search of her mate, and I thought she wasn’t ready. She’d been so protected by us. My parents practically raised her. She was softer than even Emily. I was not about to let her go bouncing around from pack to pack looking for her mate. When she left, I thought she’d done just that. It didn’t even occur to me that she could be dead. I just figured she was happy. I wanted her to be happy, but not because she was my mate. Because she was my friend.”
“Rhyson…”
“I’m not done,” he cut in. My eyes were still closed, but I felt him approaching. “You know you belong to me, Nyx. Just as I belong to you. Even without the fated mate bond, I knew it. I loved you, and fucking everyone else knew it too. That’s how I found you. Duke knocked some sense into my head, and the bond that I’d been holding back ever since I met you formed. It reaches for you, and I know you’ll never physically feel it, but you feel it in your heart, don’t you?”
My heart slammed against my chest. “Y-Yes.”
“You know that I am yours. I don’t give a shit who your parents are or what they’ve done. I only care who you are, and Nyx, you are the most amazing woman I have ever met. Your strength and compassion shine through in everything you do and everything that you touch. One of these days, when you look in the mirror, you will see the woman who I see every day. I’m going to make that my life’s mission.”
I couldn’t keep my eyes closed anymore. Opening them, I held back a sob and launched myself into his arms. “I love you,” I whispered.
“I know, baby. It’s in everything that you do, and I swear, you will know that I love you without question. Be my queen, Nyx. Be the part of me that has been missing for so damn long.”
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“Yes.” I clung to him as he kissed me, and I realized that I’d never felt true joy before now. My father hadn’t taken this from me after all. I’d found him.
Straddling him, I circled my arms around his neck and clung to him as our bodies molded together.
Mine. My mate. Till the end of our days, he was mine.
“I should let you sleep,” he growled, but made no move to unseat me. All exhaustion had fled the
moment he touched me.
“You heal me, Rhyson. Your touch heals me. I want to feel good,” I cooed with a smile. I didn’t need
to see his eyes to know that I had him. “Please.”
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