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My throat gets a little bit lumpier and I’m hanging on his lips. Because I too have felt his unhappiness.
“I thought about it for a long time, and I understood that I needed you to be happy, to be whole again, Iris. So I decided to stop being a coward. I want you back. I want you back with me.” He swallows before continuing, “When I met you, I was afraid I would fall in love with you. I was afraid to love you, but it was too late. And now I’m afraid of losing you. I don’t want your memory to haunt my thoughts, to be present only in my head. A great man once said that just because it’s in our heads doesn’t mean it’s not real. But I don’t want this reality.”
Behind the tears hidden under my eyelids, I laugh softly to hide my true emotions.
“Are you quotingHarry Potterto me again?”
His eyes shine intensely as I lift my head to make eye contact with him. His hand brushes my cheek.
“Will you get out of my thoughts and back into my reality, Iris?”
My heart beats furiously. So many things are racing through my mind, but when he touches me, I can’t think. I can only stare at his gaze, which pierces my soul, which destroys all my barriers, once again.
“C’mon kiss him!” Agnes whispers furiously behind my back.
Tucker raises an eyebrow, appreciative. “The truth always comes out of the children’s mouths.”
He doesn’t say anything more, but I know he’s waiting for my reaction, my answer.
Finally, I nod several times, my throat too knotted to speak.
“Yeah?” he pushes with a childish smile on his face.
“Yes,” I finally whisper. “I want to become your reality.”
I thought I had to get away from him to rebuild myself, to live again, to be free. I didn’t want to get lost between my heart and my mind.
But the truth is that I wasn’t living. I was just surviving, these last months. I needed him to be complete again.
He is the key to my reconstruction. And I am his. Because in the end, this whole thing is just about him, about us.
Just about you, Tucker.
Then his mouth lands on mine and never leaves it.
Two parts of a whole—the king and queen—destined to become one. One and the same heart. One and the same love.
Our love.
