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“Are you okay?” he murmurs, his face buried in my hair. “I swear, if he hurt you—”
“I’m okay.” It’s barely a whisper, but he hears me. “I tripped when he startled me and hit my head, but he didn’t do anything else.” I draw back and look up at him. “You were right—about me needing to call Enforcement about my stalker customer. It was him.”
“We know. Lenny said he’s been watching your house.”
Oh. Huh, that does make sense. Too bad I didn’t think of it earlier when Lenny mentioned it.
“Where is he, Cam?” Gideon, the scary cousin, asks. I can tell he’s trying to sound gentle, but he fails. Good thing I’m not a delicate flower.
I point back toward the house. “He should be on the couch in the living room, but he might not be. I enthralled him to get away. Am I in trouble? He had a knife.”
Gideon shakes his head. “Even if he didn’t, you wouldn’t be in trouble. He kidnapped you. You’re within your rights to use your abilities to regain your freedom. Is he injured?”
“No.” I shake my head quickly, then wince.
“Then we’ll just need a statement from you later. I’ll come to Hortplatz to get it, if I don’t have time while you’re with the healer.”
“So I can take him home?” Micah… well, it’s phrased like a question, but it sounds like a demand.
“Healer first,” Gideon reminds him. “There still isn’t one in Hortplatz, right?”
“We’re working on it,” Zac says. “Can you recommend someone here?” He eyes Micah warily.
Alistair whines, and Gideon glances toward the house. “Yeah. Sit in the car and wait for us. We’ll secure Cam’s kidnapper and hand him over to the team that deals with humans, and then I’ll take you to the healer.”
Micah tenses, like he’s going to protest the wait, but I pat his chest. My head hurts, sure, but it’s not life-threatening. I can wait a bit.
In his arms, I can wait forever.
* * *
Later,I snuggle back into his arms in our bed in Hortplatz. I’ve never been so grateful to be home ever.
“You know what I realized today?” I murmur, and he kisses the top of my head.
“What?”
“I can look after myself.”
“I already knew that. You can do anything.”
I smile at the way his voice rings with sincerity. A man who believes in me—my dream come true. “Yeah, but even though I can do it myself, I like that you want to do it for me sometimes. Like… I didn’t want to spend even one more second with Cary Mack, so I rescued myself, but I loved being able to hand over the rest to you and be taken care of. I—” Huh. I pause and process the words that want to roll off my tongue. “I love you.”
He stills, then shifts up onto one elbow so he can see my face. “You sound surprised by that.”
I sit up and shrug, then crawl into his lap. “I am, I guess. Not that I could be in love with you—I knew that would happen. But it happened really fast.”
He buries his face in my hair and inhales deeply, taking in my scent. “Not as fast as it did for me.”
Wha—
I tip my head back to meet his gaze. “You love me?”
Micah nods. “With everything I am.”
Home suddenly has a new meaning. It’s here, with Micah and love.
* * *
