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Yes, we did, mate. I jump because I didn’t see his lips move.
What? I whisper-scream inside my head.
Calm down, baby.
How? How am I hearing you in my head?
We are connected, body and soul now. I felt it last night, but I wasn’t sure until just now.
How come I’ve never heard of this before.
It’s the best-kept secret in the magical realm. But it makes sense. Would you want your enemies to know you can speak to your mate like this?
No, I guess not.
Exactly.
This is…
Epic. I know.
What if it’s just us?
That would make sense, too.
Jadis?
Yes, Halcyon?
There will be no secrets from each other, ever. Are you okay with that?
Yes. We are one now.
Yes, we are.
“Now, now, Evanora. To each their own.” His words draw Halcyon and me out of our own little world, but I can’t wait to explore that more.
“But Halbert, it’s looks like they tried to kill each other.”
“Maybe they did. You know you like to get up.”
“Jesus, no, for the love of the Goddess, do not finish that sentence, Dad,” Jorren says, groaning.
“You’ll be alright, boy,” Halbert says, and I can’t help laughing.
We spend the rest of the afternoon with his family, and then we get back in his car and head toward my family’s house in Salem.
If he can handle them, he can handle anything.
Chapter Four
HALCYON
We are a few minutes early for dinner, so Jadis takes me to her favorite spot on the land she grew up on. I park in the driveway, and we walk hand in hand about fifteen minutes from the house on a cobbled path. There’s a stone bench under a weeping willow tree. In the distance are a few ancient headstones but nothing else as far as the eye can see.
“I spent a lot of time here as a child. Alone. Always alone. I would think about things like what the world would be like without war. If there was no famine or disease?” It breaks my heart knowing that she was always alone. I wish I had known her back then. I’m only a few years older than she is. I could have loved her all this time.
“You didn’t wonder what your mate would be like?” I ask, and she smiles.
