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Hayden is proud of me.
She’s proud of the man I am.
She’s proud of the choices I have made.
Sometimes, a situation is too messed up to save. Life isn’t a fairytale, not all the time, and there are moments when you have to be strong enough to walk away.
I made that choice.
I walked away from my family, from my life, from my planet.
Some would say I walked away from my responsibilities.
I made a choice.
Now Rex has to make that choice.
Will he stay and fight for the future of Orchid?
Or will he follow me?
“A lot has happened in your absence,” Rex tells me. “There’s a growing revolution, brother. The world is different now, albeit still corrupt. You would be a good king, Gaz. You would be a far better, far braver king than I ever would.”
“That is not my life anymore,” I tell him.
He looks at Hayden and then back at me.
“You love her,” he says simply. “You’re going to marry her.”
“I’m going to marry her,” I repeat. “If she’ll have me.”
Chapter 11
Hayden
My heart has been to the moon and the stars today. So much has happened and right now, I can’t quite believe what Gaz is saying. At the same time, it makes perfect sense.
Gaz and I are true mates.
We were made to be together.
“You don’t have to decide right now,” I tell him. “If you need to return to your planet, Gaz, I understand, and I will go with you.”
“Hayden, I just said I want to marry you.”
“I know,” I whisper. “But I can’t quite believe it.”
“Believe it, beautiful girl. I want to marry you. I want to be yours forever. Will you have me, Hayden? Will you marry me?”
“Of course, I will marry you,” I tell Gaz. “But…but Gaz, I mean what I said. If you need to go home, if you need to return to your planet, I understand. I will be there with you. I will be by your side. I will stay with you, Gaz. It won’t be the end of us.”
“Hayden,” he comes to me and kneels before me, taking my hand in his. “There is something you have to understand. I left Orchid because I discovered the truth about my father. There was a plot by some of his most trusted advisors to have him killed. My mother knew about it, too.”
“Why would they do that?” I ask quietly. “Why would they kill him?”
“He believed in a free planet,” Rex says. “He wanted unity between Orchid and the other planets. He wanted us to trade freely. He wanted us to allow new people to inhabit the planet. He wanted diversity, change, freedom.”
“Sounds like Sapphira,” I admit. Our planet doesn’t have the best history when it comes to immigration.
