But I love this person. I love everything about her.
I step towards her and pull her into a hug, and I just hold her.
“Kota?”
“Just…let me hold you. I need to just hold you for a minute.”
She wraps her arms around my back, and I lift her up and sit us down on the couch.
“Bonnie, I love you,” I say the words in wonder. Completely amazed that they could be true.
She stills. “I love you, too.”
My heart soars. I didn’t know it was possible to be this happy. To feel like this.
“I love all of you,” she admits.
Cyn and Vale sit on either side of us, while Rory squeezes in, sitting on Vale’s lap. At some point, someone puts on the TV just for background noise.
We just exist together, feeling this moment.
When she’s asleep, I carry her to our bed and leave Vale curled up around her. Rory meets me in the hallway.
“We have to go to the city,” he growls.
“Why?” I snarl. “It’s not a good time.”
“There’s some issue with the company.”
I growl, I knew we’d be needing to go back and forth, but I didn’t think it would matter. Turns out, the last thing I want to do is go back.
“All right. Well, Cyn can stay.”
“No, we all have to go.”
I growl louder, disliking that thought intensely.
“If we leave now, we can get back sooner. Perhaps before sunset.”
That is a good point. “Fine, I’ll go write a note for Bonnie.”
An hour later, we’re all on the road, heading back to the city to take care of this problem so we can come back and live our forever.
Bonnie
Iwalk out the front door smiling, but it instantly falls away. My alphas aren’t home. They’re probably on a run or something. I’m just going to drop home and have breakfast with Mum. The sun is bright. That’s the first thing I register, then the people all around me.
“Can you tell us what you’re doing with the Alphas?”
What?
“Are you in a relationship?”
What!
“Are they paying you?”
Pain lances through my chest.
