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Epilogue
Mare
I staredout at the lake, watching Vevol’s sun rise slowly over the body of water. I’d thought it was an ocean until a few weeks ago, honestly.
A man stepped into place beside me.
I didn’t have to turn my head to know which one. The group of hellhounds that thought they were my protectors never came this close to me.
And the only unmated man who did was a certain possessive, confusing-as-hell phoenix.
“You should remain here while the others go,” he said to me, his voice even.
His voice was always so even, unless he was cutting someone’s head off.
I fought the horrified shiver that threatened to roll down my spine with the memories that accompanied that thought.
The way the head had fallen…
The uncaring, unfeeling look in Ervo’s eyes…
My stomach’s contents threatened to make a reappearance.
It wouldn’t be the first time I vomited at the memory. Nor would it likely be the last.
“Why would I do that?” I tried to keep my voice as level as his.
Maybe if I refused to let him see what I was feeling, his possessiveness would fade, and the confusing emotions it made me feel would too.
He had made it very clear that despite his constant reminders that I belonged to him, he thought I belonged to him as nothing more than a family member.
A female brother, he had said.
My lips twisted at the unpleasantness of the memory.
That conversation had left me so confused.
“You’ll be safer here,” he said.
“I stopped caring about my safety a long time ago.” I stared out at the water.
How many years had I spent hoping for a second chance to be someone bigger, and stronger, and better?
My whole damn life.
I wanted tomatter.
And this was my chance. Hopefully, the first of many.
“Precisely why you should remain here. The group doesn’t need someone who won’t watch their own back.”
I scowled at him. “My back doesn’t need watching. North’s does; she’s the important one.”
His eyes pierced mine. “Every female is important.”
“Which is exactly why I’m going with the group, to attempt to retrieve the ones in hiding.” I turned back to the lake, trying to calm my furiously-beating heart.
There was a long, tense moment of silence between us before Ervo spoke again.
