Chapter 104

We didn’t say anything else for a while. My eyes closed and I rested my cheek on her head, reveling in the dance that were the sparks between us. Goddess, comparing me to Logan was a knife that continued to dig further into my heart. Rydere had been right and deep down I knew it. I just couldn’t stop hating myself. For what I did. For how weak I was. Everything I did to her.

“Hector, I never hated you. Not once. Even when you left. I felt you struggling because you never brought your walls up when you were with me.” Auri nuzzled further into my chest. “But can you stop hating yourself? Can you forgive yourself? Can you move on?”

I lifted my cheek from her head and pressed my lips back down. “I don’t know, Auri. I hate…”

She shook her head against me, cutting me off. “No. Stop hating. I don’t regret it. If I had to do it over again, Hector…if the Moon Goddess sent me back in time right before I swapped places with Ezekiel, knowing the outcome, I would do it all again.”

Auri stepped bac