Chapter Thirty-Two
Draco
“Again!”
Leon came at me with speed, and a fist that would knock a normal man out cold. But I moved slightly to the right, and he missed. I’d learned how to fight against his set of powers years ago, so today I was training with him to help learn to be a little less predictable.
The fight against the man who hosted his stolen powers had been getting to Leon’s head. Since then he’d been wanting to know how to best someone like him. Both Lilith and I were giving everything we had, but ultimately it would come down to the other man’s fighting. That and making sure Leon had a clear head.
He was still hotheaded at times, and stubborn. But he’d come a long way since he first joined our family. Lilith had moved in with him in the apartment above, and both were quick to respond in any situation and were enjoying their still-new marriage as best as they could.
I dodged his next few punches but then let him land a roundabout kick to my stomach after tensing for the blow.
“You need to anticipate where he’s going to move next, not just think about where he is at that moment. Where will he go? You have to think two steps ahead. If he gets his arms around you, you’re done for,” I told him and moved on quick feet to catch him off guard. He managed to block me and then moved in a blur to my right, nailing me in the side with his fist.
“Good,” I told him, and we kept sparring until Lilith came in and said AJ wanted to see Leon.
“Wanna wrestle?” Lilith smiled wide and waggled her eyebrows at me.
There had been a bet going as to which of us would win a fight against each other. We played around a few times sparring, but, in the end, I was only more lethal than she because of how long I’d been training. She was not far behind though.
“Rain check.”
She winked at me and walked over to the weapons corner to throw some knives at a target, making a perfect heart shape around the bull’s-eye.
My eyes looked over to Rose, who was jogging on the treadmill, with Mina sitting next to her on an exercise ball eating from a bag of pretzels. I walked over to grab my drink and sat on the mat to stretch out my aching muscles.
I’d been thinking about our future together lately.
The uncertainties of it all.
If by some miracle everything was fixed, and the upcoming war never came, we would live out her life together, and then she would die. I would be alone again.
She deserved the perfect future. Whatever job she wants, maybe in psychology like she went to college for. Maybe even get married and grow old with her husband. Have kids.
There was nothing in the world that I wanted more than giving that future to her. Immortality had always been a gift and a curse.
A gift because I lived long enough to meet my true soul mate, but a curse because one day I would outlive her.
I’d try though, to give her whatever she wanted. Even kids, if she desired. I didn’t want her giving anything up for me if I could do something about it.
She glanced at me briefly and smiled before turning her attention back to her task of running while listening to Mina ramble on about whatever she was consumed with now.
I loved her smile.
Hell, I loved everything about her.
The more I watched her smile and laugh at Mina, the more I started to smile. She was still hurting from our loss, but she was my warrior, finding her happiness again.
Fuck it.
I hopped up and walked over to the girls.
My finger quickly pulled the emergency stop cord, making Rose stumble a bit from the change of pace, but I caught her and lifted her in my arms.
“Marry me, beautiful.”
I should have probably picked a better way to propose to her, romantic and shit, but I couldn’t stop myself from marching over here and blurting it out.
