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I’m not about to disobey a direct order.
I go to them, and Elias pulls me back into his arms, holding me. I breathe in a shuddering sigh. His hand settles above my hip, rubbing small, soothing circles against my skin.
“Now, dear. Do you want to talk to us?”
“No. I think I’m done. I’m really sorry. I’m normally better at bottling that shit up.”
“There’s no need to apologize,” Elias reassures me.
“And bottling it up don’t exactly sound too healthy,” Caelan adds.
I level a wry, half-hearted glower at him. “And you’ve never bottled upyouremotions?”
“That’s different.”
That gets a small, shaky giggle out of me. I lean against Elias again, and Caelan kisses the side of my neck.
“It still concerns me that you think you are worth so little to us.”
The levity I’d managed to regain fades away again. I don’t really want to talk about this. “I… I do believe you care. Or that you believe you care. But I don’t see what I can offer you. I’m only with you because I got damn lucky running into you at the theater that first night. It could have been anyone.”
Elias tilts his head. “You’re right. It was lucky we were there at the same time, but how many others were at the theater?”
“What do you mean?”
“You already demonstrated your devotion to us by seeking out such a place.”
I hadn’t thought about it that way before. “I suppose. But still, anyone could have gone.”
“Anyone could have. But you did.”
“And just ’cause any random person could’ve turned up there doesn’t mean we would’ve liked ’em just for that. Might’ve been a coincidence to run into you, but we wouldn’t have stuck around if there weren’t more to it.”
“You were singing,” Elias says, and I feel my face heating up at the reminder.
“Oh. Yeah. You heard that.”
“You bared your soul in that moment, although you didn’t know it. We could have easily left, or put our glamours into place, knowing you were there.”
I have considered that before. They always kept their true nature private. If theyhadknown I was there… “Why didn’t you?”
“Remember what I said on the beach?” Elias prompts. “Regarding souls.”
“Yes. I guess.”
“Every soul has an energy, a frequency to it. Some are more harmonious. You may view it as when you meet someone and ‘click’ with them with very little effort. Your energy was… intriguing. Enough for us to want to see how you would react to the truth of what we are.”
Nodding, I think I understand what Elias is trying to say, but my chest still aches too much to want to accept it. “You…”
“You’re fun to be around,” Caelan adds. “Easy to get along with. Don’t annoy the shit out of me like a whole bunch of other humans do.”
“We resonate, don’t you think?” Elias concludes.
I look between them, feeling ready to start crying again. But only because I’m still emotional, still tender from before. They’re closer to happy tears this time.
I laugh, trying to shake off the way it makes my heart flutter. “For a pair of demons, that’s pretty sappy.”
Elias raises an eyebrow. He hooks a finger beneath my jaw and lifts my chin, tilting my head up to face him. “Hmm… another thing, dear. You seem rather convinced we’re somehow incapable of caring for you or that we would cast you aside for caring about us.”
