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“I practically attacked you. We are half-mated now. I didn’t give you a choice. I— I did the one thing I didn’t want to do with you.”
Her words strike me, nearly hotter than Nyx’s fire. “You came all this way to tell me you do not want me as your mate?”
“No!” she yells in a rush, taking my face in her hands. “No, that is not what I meant.”
“Then, tell me so we no longer have to continue this dance of slow death,” I beg of her.
“I lost control because I want you so badly. I came here to explain myself. You know what happened with my family, how we were in the veil until the portals were unlocked with Maven’s magic.”
I nod in understanding, tucking a wayward piece of her hair again.
She holds my hand to her chest. “I’m afraid I’m being taken from them. I’m afraid being here means I can’t be with them anymore.”
“Rarity. I would never keep you from them. I have enough sunset magnolia powder for you to travel back and forth for many eternities. Any time of day, any time of night, you are welcome there just as they are welcome here. Keeping you from them would be a horrible thing for me to do.”
Everything about her demeanor changes. She brightens in an instant, then wraps herself around me, her legs wrap around my hips, her arms circle my neck tightly, and Rarity squeals.
“You promise? I can come and go?”
“A thousand times a day, My Snow, as long as you are by my side at night so I can hold onto all my dreams safely.”
Her forehead presses against mine, our breaths mingling before I lean in and steal a kiss. Guilt eats away at the newly mended veins in my body, knowing the secret I am keeping could stop all progress.
But she deserves to know.
“Rarity, I need to tell you something, okay?”
“What is it?” She blinks at me, a loving aura surrounding her.
“We are mates, but we have one more.”
“One more what?”
A loud roar rings through the castle, shaking the table we are lying on.
“What was that?” Rarity trembles, looking around to see where the commotion is coming from.
“Take this—” I dig into my pocket for sunset magnolia powder and fold her fingers over it. “Go home. I will come to you, but you need to know, the man you’re about to see—” The door is kicked in and Nyx is standing there, fire blazing in his eyes, his scales shining bright, and his wings spread so wide, he has to tuck them in to step into the room.
“Firebond—” he growls at me, his anger sizzling the floor under his feet.
He hasn’t registered that Rarity is our mate with his intent locked on me. Nyx releases fire at Rarity, but she blurs across the room to miss the flames.
“Rarity! Leave go!”
“I’m not leaving you,” she argues, flashing her fangs at our dragon.
“He’s mine!” Nyx growls so low, that I can barely understand the words.
“She’s our mate!” I yell at him, then turn to Rarity. “He’s our mate, My Snow.”
“Nonsense! Three mates do not exist,” Nyx argues, pointing a sharp claw at Rarity. “I will fly you to the moon just to watch you fall, vampire.”
A barricade of icicles points at his throat to stop him from taking a step.
“My Dove, she is our mate. Breathe her in. You will smell it. Rarity—” I turn to tell her what to do, but she’s gone.
All that’s left is the swirling orange of the sunset magnolia powder becoming smaller and smaller.
