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“Nothing concrete. It’s just…” She bit her lip. “I’ve been thinking about this since the curse showed us the same memory. It has to be about more than just making us feel regret. We already feel that well enough on our own.” She skimmed her lips over my jaw. “We came close to kissing that night.”
“Yeah.” My throat closed on the memory.
“Why didn’t you do it?”
I scrubbed a hand down my face. “I started to lean in, then Seth came into my mind. My brother pisses me off ninety-nine percent of the time, but I’m not that kind of asshole. You were his girlfriend. I shouldn’t have even dared you to go up to the cave that night.”
“I would’ve left Seth if we had kissed.”
“Jesus, baby.” I closed my eyes as the old pain shot through me like a quick stab with a sharp knife. “It doesn’t do us any good to dwell on what might’ve been.”
“I know.” She rubbed her hand up and down my chest, giving me comfort that I didn’t have to ask for. “But I think the curse had limited reach before, in the dead zone, and it kept us apart on purpose that night. Almost as if it knew we’d be each other’s positive and negative charge. If you hadn’t been at the spring that night, we might never have touched again at all.”
Fuck. I didn’t know what to think about the curse having that much influence on our lives over the years. “The smoke can get inside our heads. It must’ve known we were opposite signs and didn’t want us getting too close, just in case.”
“Just in case of what, though?” She leaned up on her elbow. “There have been descendants of opposite signs on the island for as long as there’s been an island. What made it think we’d have access to magic any more than the ones who came before us?”
“I can’t answer that.” There was so much we didn’t know. The two of us had been feeling our way around in the dark for weeks. “What are you hoping to find up there?”
“A reason.” She curled her hand into a fist. “And a weakness.”
The determined look on her face made me smile, despite the grim circumstances ahead of us. Regardless of her fears, she’d be able to handle herself just fine. The curse had picked the wrong woman to mess with. “We’ll go first thing in the morning.”
“Thank you.” She kissed my chest. “For trusting me.”
I ran my hands through her hair as I held her tight against me. And stayed awake thinking, long after her breathing evened out and she’d fallen asleep.
