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I took a blanket and strolled to the garden swing, wrapped the blanket around me and latched Dante onto my breast and swung backwards and forwards in the shade, under the oak tree.
The moment was bliss, silence apart from the light music being played at the house and the birds serenading their tunes in the trees.
I glanced into the sky, nothing but the perfect azure blue with a scattering of white fluff claiming to be clouds.
Then I saw him staring at me.
I pretended for a moment I hadn’t seen him and looked back into the sky as I waited for my son to finish feeding. I didn’t want him to disappear or to scare him away.
Dante finished, and I pushed my bra and my dress to cover myself and stood as I bounced Dante on my hip. Strolling in the direction as casual as I could make it.
I turned around, a quick look back, and watched as everyone continued to make small talk over lunch.
I continued to make my walk to the edge of the garden and looked up to see him in the trees.
I smiled, wondering if he wanted to meet his son.
“Dante,” I said, he didn’t move. He couldn’t take his eyes away from me or his son. “You need to meet him, to hold him.”
Blake tucked and folded his wings into his body as he almost floated down to the ground.
“Don’t take him,” I said, my tone laced with a warning.
“I won’t,” he said, our eyes meeting. “I’ve been watching you with him. It’s beautiful seeing you love my child.”
“Why wouldn’t I? I love you. Why wouldn’t I love your child?”
Blake’s eyes teared up hearing that.
“I never knew you’d be so emotional being the god of darkness,” I said. It was partly truthful and partly annoyed.
“I’m bound with light. I’ve got you inside me. And you’ve got me inside you. Though you never seem to show it.”
I took his words as the dig they were. He claimed he couldn’t love me if I had Kane and Seb. He was the darkness. It should have been me not accepting—not him. But maybe loving three men showed me I wasn’t pure light, and I never was. Perhaps the gods knew one day I would choose this life. Maybe that was the reason they hadn’t let me go back to their world.
Blake placed Dante back in my arms after staring at him for ten minutes. All the while, I was so in awe of how much love was in his eyes. “I should go. I love you Lacey.”
“I love you too, Blake.”
Our eyes meet when I said that, and it felt like the moment lasted for eternity. Finally, he sighed and turned, ready to take flight again.
“Would it be so bad?” I asked.
He spun back to me and shook his head, and I didn’t know if he was answering or not understanding. He glanced over my shoulder and I turned and looked at where Kane was swinging Aria around. Jack and Zena were kissing and Clay, Yuri and Seb were staring over at me.
“This life,” I said, spinning back to him, tears streaming down my face. “Bringing your son up with me.”
“It won’t work,” he said.
I chewed on the inside of my cheek, trying to stop a sob so I could continue talking. “Seb and Kane. They thought it wouldn’t work. Look at us. It works. You could be happy.”
Blake blinked hard. The sadness ebbed as his wings dropped and he sighed. “I’m too selfish. He stared at me as he said, "I want you, my son... your daughter, but nobody else." I don’t know why, perhaps hoping, wishing I would change my mind... anything.
“You are,” I said with a weary nod and a sigh. “Selfish that it.” I hesitated for a moment, waiting for his reaction and when I got nothing but staring at me. I shrugged a shoulder. “Then it looks like we’re both going to be miserable unless we can find a spell that breaks this bond we have.”
“No,” he barked.
“Yes Blake, I can’t live the rest of my life pining for you,” I whispered. “I can’t miss you forever. I’ll tell Clay he can search for it.”
