93. Choice

Airk’s pov

Argo had told me he spoke to Isaac yesterday, and it reminded me how much I had been focused on my own small circle of people. Brax and Argo were the only people I really let in and trusted. Even Elora and Mila I kept at a safe distance.

It wasn’t so much by choice as by necessity. I didn’t have the energy to spend on others. Brax and Argo were both so familiar to me that it was easy to be around them. But even with them, I held some of my feelings in.

It was scary to fully love someone when someone who was meant to be my one true love had hurt me so badly.

But now that Brax and I were marked and I had forgiven Jace, I felt like I had more room in my mind for others.

‘You know we’re not totally fixed, right?’ Kael said inside my head.

Of course, I knew we weren’t fixed. I still had things that triggered me; I could still get very angry or scared. I still had nightmares and flashbacks. But now, I had Brax, my big teddy bear, to help me relax.

‘And he’s so good at it,’