Our eyes, however, are on the wolf, who crosses to the far side of a fire pit sunk into the ground at the center of the clearing. There’s a bright flash and then she’s before us.She. Her. The woman we were sent to find.I couldn’t tell you how I know it, but I’m sort of done asking questions about
Victor heaves a huge sigh of relief, running a hand down his face, and I can feel the reprieve running through his body. I beam at him, scootching closer, glad to be able to see and feel the tension leaving him.It’s real. It’s all real.I mean, we knew that it was. That’s what we’ve figured out her
“Why?” I ask, frowning at her even as I lean forward eagerly. “Do you have to go? Why can’t you stay? We have so much we want to know –““Because my dear,” she interrupts, smiling at me kindly. “I, too, am not quite of this earth. My time in this realm is borrowed time; it is only at midnight that o
“Don’t cry,” Victor whispers to me, using his thumbs to brush the tears from my cheeks. “I’m sorry,” I murmur, shaking my head and looking down at his chest. “I’m just so…I want to be done – I want to go home – I want to take our boys home and start to live our lives again -”“I know, sweetheart,”
We only walk a short distance before I hear it. “Oh!” I exclaim, my eyes going wide, suddenly excited. “Oh, I get it!” I laugh, my heart suddenly eager for it.“Do you know where we are?” he asks, preening a little at the cleverness of his idea. “Yes!” I say, rushing ahead and pulling him along. “
Victor reaches out a hand, snatching me as soon as I come in within his reach and dragging me through the water to him. I laugh as he pulls me against him, delighted at the feeling of being weightless, of being drawn close to him so effortlessly. Victor tucks a hand behind my back, pulling me again
“Oh!” I shout, my voice falsely appalled – “a hottie! He thinks he’s a hottie now, everyone!” “Who are you talking to,” he murmurs then, still laughing, close enough to the falls now that they pound just behind him, enveloping us in the mist. “No one can hear you but me.”“The magic,” I murmur back
I murmur my mate’s name as I pull him close, feeling his growl reverberate in his chest as I hold him against me. Suddenly I can’t get him near enough to me, wanting to feel every inch of his skin pressed against mine. Victor apparently feels the same, clutching me with one arm as he spreads the fin