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Glaring, she closed the space between them. “I don’t know what secrets your trying to hide but you have two options you either tell me them or stop making it so obvious that you have them.”
He frowned, his eyes narrowing.
She shook her head, “Don’t look at me like that. You think I didn’t notice how every time Sakai-san gears up to talk about you and your childhood you stop him.”
“That’s because there’s nothing to tell.” Raijin roughly argued. “It’s nothing.”
Sabina had remained quiet this long, but she was done. “Look, I can understand more than anyone, wanting to keep your past a secret. I cringe thinking of all the times you’ve seen me at my worse, but Raijin, you don’t have to sneakily hide it from me.”
She felt like hypocrite, which is why she wasn’t going to tell him to tell her everything, “And I’m not asking you to lay every secret at my feet. I knew what I was doing when I went to you that night.”
Pain came and went in his eyes before she could be one hundred percent that was what she’d seen. “Did you?”
“I did.” Sabin answered immediately.
“I might not know where this will go, and I damn sure can’t say the timing is right. But we are right,” she moved closer grabbing the edge of his robe.
“I don’t want your secrets laid out; they don’t matter to the big picture. Fuck the stereotypes, if your secrets are going to cost me you,” she rose up on her tippy toes, her lips nearly touching his, and her eyes intense. “I don’t want them.”
“Mommy,” Kahlia’s voice cut through the tension in the air.
Pulling away, she took a step back from him running a hand through her curly hair. “That’s me.” Turning away from him she went to walk away, but he grabbed her wrist jerking her back so that her back hit his chest hard. He wrapped his arms around her, and lowered his head whispering something before he kissed her under her right ear, drawing away he went to a room where his clothes had been placed.
Sabina watched him go with a complicated expression.
“I want to tell you.”
That was the best for now, the fact that he at least desired to tell her was a hundred times better than him pretending that there weren’t any secrets. That’s what Derek had done, making her feel as if she was the crazy one. His family had waved off his cheating, like she was the one wrong for bringing it up.
They both had secrets, and both knew it. She looked at her wrist, at the tattoo that she’d nearly forgotten about enjoying being with her daughter and Raijin.
“Three weeks.”
Lowering her arm, she wanted to enjoy some more time being normal. Being happy, even if that meant she pretended for a few more days she wasn’t cursed.
* * *
“Mom, look a snow man.”
Kahlia raced ahead of them running toward the snowman that someone built at the opening of the open-air mall. Sakai-san had eagerly called a driver around to take them. Sabina kept forgetting the man was wealthy, something about his calm and good nature just kept making her forget. Kahlia, lifted a hand measuring her height, before exclaiming. “I’m taller,” in excitement.
Raijin walked ahead lifting her into his arms, she shrieked in excitement. “Now you’re even taller.”
Kahlia made a strikingly adult face, and pointed down at the snowman. “Bow before me, peasant.”
Both Raijin, and Sabina were stunned into silence, before Sabina growled as Raijin laughed. Bouncing her up and down. “Let’s see if the cafes have something to your liking.”
“Hot chocolate.” She crowed in excitement.
“Hot chocolate it is,” he crowed with her. The three were so occupied with enjoying their outing, that when Raijin stilled and abruptly jumped in front of her, Sabina could only sharply inhale in shock. In his hand was a good sized metal trash can that’d been thrown at them.
“Mommy.” Kahlia cried from within Raijin arms, clearly alarmed.
“Come here baby,” Reaching for her, Sabina grabbed her up and held her close.
Raijin fingers were digging into the large trash can that had been thrown at him. He lowered his arm, flinging the trashcan to the right. It slammed into a drink machine; the electricity flashed as the machine sputtered off. The people around them continued to move as if nothing had happened, a jelly like barrier appearing between them and the humans.
“I thought they were lying,” the person who’d thrown it said; as they walked toward them.
