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My eyebrows shot up. “You did? Were you scared?”
“No,” Lucky said slowly. “Not scared…not really. I think I was just struggling to wrap my head around everything. Grant being dead. Dagon and Dimitri not being human. It was too much to deal with all at once.”
I gave a humourless chuckle. “Yep, I know how you’re feeling there. You obviously stopped running though.”
“Only because Dimitri caught me. Literally threw me over his shoulder and kidnapped me.” He smiled fondly as he recalled it. “Quite sweet, really.”
I thought about how Sebastian had swept me into his arms and carried me away. Yeah. I understood that too.
“They took me to a cabin they’d built centuries ago and kept me there until I’d listened to the whole story. By the time we left, we were mated.”
“I’m glad it ended happily for you.”
It was true, I was happy for him. But I couldn’t lie. A small part of me was devastated by the fact that Lucky’s men had fought for him. Not physically, but emotionally. They’d made him theirs.
Whereas Sebastian was pushing me away.
You know why though. You just need to make him see sense.
“Might sound weird, but I’m kind of jealous. I can’t see anyone ever wanting me enough that they’d go so far as to spirit me away.”
“You never know what might happen with Sebastian,” Lucky whispered, like he could read my mind.
“You’re not…surprised? That I like him?”
Lucky hummed. “Not really. I started to suspect you liked him in the club, then you kinda confirmed it that day in uni, after he saved you from that horrific date.”
“He’s been kind to me. Always kind.”
Lucky squeezed my hand once more. “Good. If he’s ever not, I’ll have Dimitri and Dagon beat him up. They might not be able to take him on separately, but I’m sure together they can do it.”
Chapter 19
Sebastian
This was not where I’d thought I’d end the night.
But here I was, in Matty’s bed. My sunshine was sleeping fitfully, little whimpers occasionally rising from his throat. Rami had agreed to come and heal his hand, but to my chagrin, he couldn’t get here until the morning. Whatever had happened with Micah was apparently having repercussions that his unit had to deal with.
Leo had looked almost as grumpy as I usually did when Matty begged me to stay overnight. True to his word though, he didn’t say anything. Just threw one of his T-shirts at me before shooting me a look to remind me of his parting threat.
Like I’d forget. I knew I couldn’t go there. Not because I was scared of Leo or Ferry, but because I was scared of what it might do to me. To Matty.
Because this would end with me walking away from him. As soon as he was healed enough for me to leave, I’d be on my jet and flying to America.
It was the right thing to do. For everyone.
What was the alternative? Even if Matty could live with my lifestyle and the crimes I’d committed, there was still my less-than-stellar attitude for him to contend with. And if we got over that barrier, I knew my enemies would love to have some leverage over me. There was no way I was letting Matty become that.
But worst of all…I knew what’d happen if I stayed here with him. He’d end up being ostracised by everyone he cared about. It might not happen straight away, but eventually it would. The others might tolerate me for Matty’s sake, but me being around full-time would change things. It’d create a distance that hadn’t been there before.
It didn’t matter how right it felt to hold Matty in my arms. That I finally felt calm after centuries of torment. None of that mattered, because this wasn’t about me.
It was about Matty.
I refused to be the darkness that would eclipse his sunshine.
His cheek was pressed to my chest, his injured hand thrown across my torso like he was trying to make sure I didn’t leave. His leg lay over mine, his foot hooked under my knee.
