Resurrect My Heart

…SLATER POV…

Staring at Kage, still burning white-hot with fury, it brings back all those nights. Nights when I was so angry at him, and myself for the part we both played in chasing Avy away. The plan never was to get her to leave town, we were trying to teach her a lesson for playing us all.

But Kage had a temper, and he felt betrayed.

There was no way that he was going to let Avy make him look like a fool. So he pushed her as far as he could, so far that she eventually left.

And it broke me.

It splintered my heart into so many goddamn pieces, I could not find anything that would put it back together again.

But now, she is back.

And all those feelings, those emotions, they have been pulled from the grave that has been my heart.

I know I should not.

But I feel alive again for the first time in years.

Though this thing with Kage and Niko, I need them to stop because if they don’t, it will push Avy away again. Yes, I am the last one that approves of what Kage did to get her here, but s