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“I remember it all. It’s back.”
Dex stared at me, unbelieving, before he started laughing.
I started laughing, too. I sat on top of him, his cock still buried inside of me, and we laughed together, the stress and the pain of the past two months finally falling away.
I rolled off Dex and lay next to him. His emotions flooded the bond between us—hope, love, gratitude. I knew he felt the same from me.
“How?” Dex asked.
I shook my head. “I don’t know. I have to have a conversation with Terra. I have things I need to say to her.” I’d been wrong, and I had to make it right.
“Do you need me to go?”
“Not yet,” I said and shifted closer to Dex.
He wrapped his arm around my shoulders, and I lay on his chest, his heart beating against my ear.
“We were wrong,” I said.
“With what?”
“Our magic, using it the way we did.”
Dex was silent for a while.
“We have a lot of power together, but we have to use it for the right things.”
“I understand,” Dex said. “It’s a lot of responsibility.”
“It’s how things have always been, isn’t it?” I asked. “We always have a lot to juggle, a lot of lives at stake. A lot weighing on our choices.”
Dex nodded and dropped a kiss on my hair. “We’ll figure it out. As long as we’re together, come what may, we’ll pull each other back from the edge.”
I nodded and held onto Dex just a little tighter. It had taken me nearly losing him to realize exactly what I had. It had taken me losing everything, even Terra, to realize what my life was.
I was just glad it was back.
Eventually, Dex had to leave. He had to talk to Ellie and Ren about being stationed here as general again, about being a part of palace life. I knew they would allow it. We’d all missed him while he was gone. Ellie and Ren more than I did, because then, I hadn’t remembered it all. I wouldn’t have coped without Dex if I had.
When he was gone, I walked to my sanctuary. Everything was covered in a thin layer of dust—I hadn’t been here in over two months.
I kneeled in front of the large stained-glass depiction of Terra.
“You’re back, child,” Terra said, her voice as clear as a bell. “You’ve been gone for a long time.”
“I’m sorry,” I said. “I understand what you were trying to show me.”
“I never wanted to lose you, or turn my back on you,” Terra said. “You’re very dear to me, Nylah. I know that you’ve always loved Dex. But your bond could never fully solidify until you realized how important he was to you. And the only way to do that was to take him from you.”
“Am I going to lose him?” I asked, my heart aching at the thought of our bond breaking. We hadn’t had a bond before, but now…losing him would bring immeasurable pain.
“You already have. You won’t lose him again,” Terra said. “The bond has been there for a very long time, but you both continued to push it away. You did not feel the full impact of the mate bond until you opened your heart to the truth.”
My heart sang.
“Your bond is strong, and I never planned on taking it away from you permanently. I allowed you to remember again because you learned from your mistakes. You’re going to have a long, happy, healthy life filled with children and love.”
I gasped. “If you knew this, why did you give me the vision in the first place?”
