He chuckled and then moved to my side to hold me in his arms. One of his hands went to my womb and he kissed my temple. I felt so loved, so complete.
This was everything I had ever wanted.
Xander was everything I had ever wanted.
I would always be so grateful to the goddess for making him for me.
Then I realized that this was the vision I’d had on the day of our wedding.
And I silently thanked the goddess for him, and for letting me have this.
We had celebrated well into the night, trying to catch my Locrian family up on everything that had occurred since we had left.
While obviously leaving out many details that I knew would upset my parents.
Early the next morning, I lay in my husband’s arms, thoroughly satiated.
“You should pass a law,” I said, “that everyone should spend all their time making love.”
He laughed. “I don’t have to pass a law for that. It’s already happening. Besides, if I legislated it, it would bring the nation to a grinding halt.”
“But think of how happy everyone would be.”
“You make me happy,” he said, kissing me. “And I love you more than you could possibly imagine.”
“I don’t know,” I told him. “I have an excellent imagination.”
“I’m well aware,” he said with a smirk before he kissed me again. “So should we follow my new impending law again?”
“Actually, I want to take the eye and try to fix Locris. Will you come with me?”
“Of course,” he said. “Aren’t you going to tell your family what we’re doing?”
“No. I don’t want them to be disappointed if it doesn’t work.”
“It will work,” he said confidently. “I believe in you.”
Every time I thought I couldn’t love this man more, he said something to prove that false.
We got dressed and grabbed something to eat, which I promptly threw up, and then walked out of the palace, through the city, and toward the mountains.
Luna insisted on accompanying us and alternated between flying and walking along the ground.
“I don’t know that I can build an enclosure big enough for your lizard,” Xander said. It was true—Luna had grown again and was now the same size as a dog.
I am an aether dragon,Luna said indignantly in my mind. She could understand other people now, but I was the only one who could hear her.
“She doesn’t like it when you call her that.”
Luna emitted a stream of silver flame, as if to prove her point.
“Fine, dragon,” he conceded, and she looked satisfied. “But I don’t know how I feel about her growing an earth dragon tail.”
It was true, her tail had begun to change. The end had rounded and tiny flexible spikes surrounded it. I was certain they would harden as she grew. “Then it’s a good thing she’s on our side.”
When we were far enough away from Naryx, I knelt down. “Here will work.”
I took the eye of the goddess out of my bag. Lysimache had mentioned that she had buried it in the earth, so I assumed I would need to do the same.
