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“I want to rip his head off and I want you to get your revenge,” I tell her. “But I am terrified of losing you again. I finally have you, all of you, in my grasp and it would be foolish for me to even think about putting you in harm’s way.”
She gives me a bone-dry look. “You didn’t seem to feel this way when we first came here.”
“Because that was a different me,” I tell her. “And he was afraid. He just didn’t know what to do with that fear…” Well, actually he did.
She studies me carefully, lips pursed in thought. “You know, all this time I thought your erasure of me destroyed all of your humanity. But I don’t think that was the case. In the end, you took that potion because you were so afraid to love and to lose. There’s nothing more human than that.”
I don’t know if that was her intention, but I’ll admit that does make me feel a little better.
“Still an asshole though,” she adds, biting her lip.
“Yeah. But I’m your asshole.” I grab her and she’s giggling, trying to run away. I throw her on the bed, then pounce on top of her, and give her all of my humanity.
* * *
The two ofus are still entwined in each other’s arms, thoroughly sated and exhausted from each other’s bodies, when there’s a knock at our door.
“Fucking hell, this can’t be them already,” I grumble, throwing back the covers and getting out of bed. “I’m not prepared for this.”
I start for the door and Rose calls out, “Val, you may want to uh,” she trails off, gesturing to the fact that my half-hard dick is swinging about.
I grumble again and grab the towel from earlier, wrapping it around my waist. Could be a housekeeper and I don’t want her to get the wrong idea.
But when I glance through the peephole, I see Wolf’s big fat head on the other side and I know that things are about to get nuts.
I sigh heavily and Wolf says, “I can hear you Valtu,” from the other side. He sniffs. “Smell you, too.”
Here goes nothing.
I open the door and see Wolf, tall with all that Scandinavian burliness. From behind him Amethyst pokes out her head.
“Where is she?” Amethyst says, her violet eyes sharp and demanding. Then she eyes my bare chest and my towel and her eyes grow even sharper.
“Well hello to you, too,” I say, as she pushes me to the side and barrels past me into the room, her black hair trailing behind her.
I look back to Wolf, grinning.
I only see his fist.
He punches me right in the face. Pain explodes as my bones crunch beneath his hand.
“Fuck!” I yelp, stumbling back against the wall, holding my nose. “What was that for?”
“For everything.”
“Everything?” I repeat, trying to move my nose. “Oh. Right.”
“Yeah.Everything,” he says. Not just the fact that I’m with Rose, but the fact that I never helped them when I first got the book.
I rub at the bridge of my nose, feeling the bones go back into place. “I guess I deserved that.”
He glares at me but there’s just a tinge of sympathy in his eyes. It makes things a hell of a lot worse.
Meanwhile, in the bedroom of the suite, Amethyst and Rose are sobbing away during their reunion.
“Coffee?” I ask Wolf walking toward the machine.
“Please,” he says emphatically. “I am jetlagged as fuck.”
