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“Are you afraid of falling in love, Divina?”
She sputtered with a few false starts, then finally managed, “Of course not. Ilovelove. All forms of it. I revel in it.”
“I don’t mean the in and out kind of love,” Ere amended, “I mean the always and forever kind. I take it you’ve never been in it, because you’d still be in it if you were.”
Divina huffed in frustration.
“How do we even know there is such a thing? We are immortals. Well, we can still die, but if we keep our heads and don’t get blown up or otherwise obliterated, we have eternal youth and health.”
Ere arched a brow as if to say, “your point being?”
Divina went on to explain, “Humans might fall prey to such entanglements, like ‘love,’ and their lives are short enough to withstand the phrase ‘til death do us part.’ It might seem like forever for them because they don’t know any better.”
“But we immortals see and experience so much more,” she argued. “In all the millennia that I have existed, I have not witnessed a love that lasts forever. How could I? I have not lived forever. But I do know, factually, that every relationship ends. It’s like the eb and flow of tides. Things must end to make way for new beginnings.”
Ere didn’t comment. He simply kept his keen, somehow sympathetic eyes on her, waiting for her to continue.
“I mean, I’m happy the way I am. I’ve always been happy,” she insisted.
“I live for the most part in the Celestial Realm with my babies. I visit the earth realm once in a while to be worshipped and adored and, yes,lovedby handsome men,” she said this a bit defensively.
She resented that she felt defensive.
“I’ve never wanted for anything. Why would I ever yearn for, never mind chase, a dream that is unproven? Look at what happened to Byakko the first Tiger King with the Pure Goddess. Look at the Greek Pantheon. Or any pantheon of gods and demi-gods. Nobody truly loves anybody else. If we don’t expect that level of unwavering devotion, we won’t ever be disappointed.”
In a smaller, far less certain voice, she added, “It’s not like I’m missing anything from my life.”
“Aren’t you?” Ere prodded quietly.
Involuntarily, she glanced at Andros again, just as he looked over at her.
Funny how you didn’t miss anything until the very thing you didn’t know you needed all your life was staring you directly in the face.
Divina tore her gaze away, pretending to busy herself with bending down to untangle some knots in Chewie’s fur with her fingers.
Ere sighed beside her.
It wasn’t his impatient or frustrated sigh. She knew the male didn’t like her very much. She tried his nerves. Which made her want to be his friend even more. He was a challenge.
This sigh, however, was sympathetic. Almost as if he cared about her and wished for her own sake that she wasn’t such a stubborn, shortsighted, cowardly, selfish bitch.
Hmm, she was getting really good at projecting Ere’s thoughts.
“It’s true that not everyone is made for the forever kind of love,” he said. “I don’t know which camp you fall into, Divina. I can only tell you that it’s real. It’s true. No matter my incarnation or Sorin’s, I will always find him if we are ever parted. I will always wait for him with all of my heart and soul. I will have no other but him until the end of time and beyond it. And I know without a doubt that he will do the same for me.”
He looked at his Mate with such love in his eyes, Divina squinted at the overpowering brightness of it.
“He has done it already,” Ere said softly. “Even death cannot stop us from being together.”
Divina frowned in consideration.
“Aren’t you…scared to lose him? What if—”
“I am terrified to lose him,” Ere replied vehemently. “But more than that, I am petrified, scared shitless, of never having him at all.”
She closed her mouth with a snap and stared at him with owl-like eyes.
He rather terrifiedherwith his passion. The crazed, haunted look in his swirling, lightning blue eyes.
