To be with her

MESSIAH JORDY'S POV

With his warm breath caressing my nape and his cock teasing my ass mercilessly, I was tempted to say every bit of the words lingering on my lips.

Fighting with him had been draining for me, if I was being honest. Watching us drift away had been heart-wrenching, but I had no idea how to fix us.

Arlo will always have a special place in my heart, but so will my friends. Zachary, Zoey, and Jamal — were my definition of childhood and teenagehood. I crawled on all fours with them and created never-fading memories with them.

It wasn't so easy to ditch them because of whatever harm they might cause me. I might be silly, naive, and clueless, but I was finding it hard to completely let go of them. No matter how much fate was drifting me away from them.

With Jamal, it was understandable. I mean, Luther was scheming against my parents and me, and Jamal was his son and might have sided with him at some point. And he had also rejected me as his mate. So yeah, keeping m