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"Right," I replied. "She's...beautiful."
Aurelia paused as she was measuring my chest to look up at me.
"You got taller."
"I noticed," I replied back as I looked down at her. We shared a look, and she further smiled. "Let's get that sample and try it-"
I stopped her before she could move away, my hand wrapping around her wrist, which forced her to look back at me in question.
"What?"
"You can be mad, you know?"
She stared at me with that innocent face of confusion, but my eyes softened as I held her wrist, noticing the slight tremble in her hand.
"Aurelia," my voice was soft and husky, "I see right through you."
"See what?" She laughed it off. "There's nothing to be mad about."
"You know no matter who I'm mated to now, there's always a part of me that still loves you," I quietly voiced. "A part of me reads you like a book, just like Onyx does to me for shits and giggles."
She remained still, still trying to keep her facade, but I let go of her as I gave her all my attention. "I still know when you're hurting, Aurelia. I specifically know when I've done something to break your heart. So...let it ou-"
I didn't finish as the slap to my cheek made my head go to the right side. I smirked as I caught onto her deep inhale, while my cheek stung from the force of her slap. I could sense Neo’s and even Onyx's curiosity, but I mentally urged them with my feelings to not interfere.
"Did I even once come up in your mind?" she whispered, and I already knew I'd get a second slap on the other cheek, sending my head back to the left. "That...losing you would fuck me right up? That losing my best friend who's been with me through thick and thin would trigger a bunch of madness that disabled me from being right there for you?!"
She tried to slap me a third time, but I stopped her - her wrist in my grasp as her wild golden eyes brewed with anger. My eyes merely softened at the sight, while I swallowed the lump in my throat.
Out of everyone - the Forbidden Pack, Onyx, Viktor, and even Papa Dearest - I knew within my soul that my suicide would ruin Aurelia. The consequences with the others were dangerous if not lethal, but Aurelia?
Her magic would seek vengeance for me until the world fell in flames.
When we said Ride-or -ie, it was rather literal. If one of our roads ended, the other would ride down to steal us from death or take as many fuckers as possible with us to the grave.
She knew if death stole her from me, there would be no second thought. I'd turn this world upside down and meet her in the fields of Mother Moon's sanctuary.
I knew this...and yet I took that step off the cliff.
Moving her hand, I pressed my lips to the palm of it and allowed my eyes to close as tears ran down them. I didn't deserve to cry, and yet I couldn't stop myself. It hurt to see Aurelia in pain, and what hurt more was the fact that I was the culprit of that agony.
"Forgive me, Aurelia." It was all I could pleadingly ask of her. To accept my blind-sightedness at that moment and forgive me for the coward I'd been.
The pain was too much for me. The rejection, the heartache, the intense desire for purpose, and knowing I'd never obtained that ultimate dream was debilitating. My world was dark, and no amount of light could pierce through my demise.
It took Mother Moon talking sense to me for that new vision to awaken and reveal that there was a way out right there and then, yet I couldn't wait another hour. I couldn't wait for another second in that pit of endless agony.
My eyes opened slowly to see the tears spill down her face, and even through the anger, the pain, and her burning desire to reject my plea, I knew right there in the core of those irises that she would forgive me.
I knew the day Aurelia and I met that we'd be in each other's lives for a long-ass time, but when we dated for a year, I knew this world would be dull without her joy. Romantically or not, there was no doubt in my mind that she'd be by my side, no matter if her Coven tried to shun her away from me, or Roberto fought to keep me away from her.
We were magnets, destined to connect, and though our romance fell through, it was on agreeable terms. No matter rain or shine, we'd be besties.
There were ups and downs, periods of quietness and weeks of banter and fun, nights of amazing pleasure, and moments of endless sorrow. The rollercoaster ride with Aurelia was one I'd ride again and again, and even now that I'd awakened my wolf and was on a new path Mother Moon set out for me, I needed her support.
Not just for her wondrous medicines and herbs, financial backup, and powerful position, but because she was my best friend and with her as my backbone, I could walk confidently out of this penthouse and prove to the world who William De Luca was.
Claim my legacy in front of the world.
