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“Lacey...”
“No, I can’t do it anymore. I can’t...” I blinked hard and turned and walked away, holding the sobs back, and not looking back until I reached the house.
“Do you want me to take Dante?” Seb now held Aria in one arm and held his other out to take Dante. I shook my head with a light turn of my head and smiled at him. After everything, Seb didn’t have a problem with Blake or his child.
He pulled me to his side. I rested my head on his shoulder, looking up at him. Seb gazed back, and all I saw was pure love. “You’re a good father Seb,” I said, watching Aria cuddle into Seb, and him wanting to take Dante for me, too. “I’m sorry you don’t have your own yet.”
“It’s fine. After nearly killing you again, I'm glad you still want me here.”
“Seb, it was an accident and you need to stop beating yourself up.” I glanced toward where Blake had been. “You thought nothing of going to save Aria, but you beat yourself up for a mistake.”
Seb would do anything for me, everything for me. Kane told me he was prepared to sacrifice his life for me.
Blake couldn’t…
But he saved Seb and Aria’s lives.
“I’m going to get a little rest,” I said, planting my lips on his. “Do you want to come for a rest, Aria?”
“No,” Aria said with a pout and hugged Seb tight around his neck.
I gave a last sigh and turned to the house, trying my hardest to be brave before the sobs fell heavily down my cheeks.
Chapter 50
Seb
Itriedtoremaincalm as she walked away, but I already saw the tears creeping into her eyes and that hurt me so much, knowing she was in pain because Blake finally gave up on her.
Earlier, I watched the scene unfold between Lacey and Blake. My anger was rising because the bastard didn’t relent. I knew he wouldn’t in the way he stood and because of her stance, normally she was confident, shoulders back, chin up with a smile on her face.
Not at that moment, though. When it looked like there was a fraught conversation between them, and I was sure Lacey rubbed a tear away at one point.
But I stood and waited. Until I spun, feeling two people next to me. Clay squeezed my shoulder as Yuri grunted and Kane gave me Aria while he helped to clean up after lunch.
“I should have known it was him all along,” Yuri grunted. “When he was at the ceremony with her, I felt him pulsing his magic. He was pushing himself, obviously finding it hard being within our magic. And I knew there was something about him, but I didn’t act on it because I thought he was a potential knight. Now I know I felt him, a darkness.”
“Nobody knew Yuri. I should have known more than anyone. Lacey should have known,” Clay said, defending his knight.
“Maybe she always knew,” Yuri said, watching the interaction between Blake and Lacey. “She was attracted to him at the coffee shop on her birthday. I saw it in her eyes.”
“He is a fated mate, Yuri,” Clay said. “She didn’t know it at the time, but something within her must have always felt him. We can’t fight the fates. Same as with Seb and Kane. She found them in the end. The real question is, how is she going to deal with him rejecting her?”
“Do you think we should intervene?” Yuri asked. He hated seeing Lacey looking hurt as much as I did. She had always treated him well, and his love for her was as if she was his own.
“No, Lacey will know how to handle Blake,” Clay said.
I noticed nobody called him the dark king, but I supposed calling him how we all came to know him was easier than his real name or the dark king. Then again, we didn’t call Lacey the light queen or the goddess of light, either.
It was a beautiful moment when Lacey handed Dante to Blake. He looked at him and was in awe of his son and it was nice seeing Blake hold his own for a time, but I was ready to take flight if he thought of taking off with him.
But he didn’t. Lacey took Dante back as she spoke to Blake, and she turned away. We watched her slowly walk away. Her shoulders dropped as she held Dante close to her chest and talked to him, kissing his head. And I think she was trying to not turn around, not look at Blake again.
Right at the moment, I felt we were out of options.
And it became unbearable. She’d been so sad since the bind with Blake and I think now she was waiting for some spell or something to kick in. Maybe she thought Blake would put one between them himself.
Maybe he would eventually.
