“Come,” she demands.
What? I stare in confusion.
Leaf steps through first, with his cat on his shoulders.
Reed looks at me. “I’m not losing her again.” He moves towards the portal, and suddenly, he has legs.
I jerk forwards, staring. “What?”
“You have part of me in you now. That was the thing the pack members absorb from each other. So, you can do what I can do…like change shape and step through worlds,” Mei says and laughs. “Just think about walking.”
Lirin goes next, followed by Canto, then Brio.
I stay in the water for a long moment, staring at her, terrified it won’t work.
“Trust me, Ronit. If you want to stay, we’ll stay.”
She would, too. She would spend forever under the ocean if she could be with us.
But I would spend eternity under the water if it meant she would be safe.
Trust. I do trust her.
I step out, and I have legs.
I grab my omega and drag her towards me, kissing her with all the desperation I have in me.
“Never leave me again,” she says when I pull back.
I stroke her cheek, laughing softly.
“Never.”
“Hey, Mei,” Lirin asks. “Where are we?”
Chapter 47
Mei
Epilogue
Our house is waiting for us, but it doesn’t feel like ours anymore. Earth feels…too small after the oceans and Hell. Still, we walk in and order food. Ronit goes and returns with clothes. While he is dressing me, the others pull clothes on and sit down, as we all start to relax.
“I have runes,” Reed says loudly. “In my stripes.”
The shiver is silent, but my head is still tripping.
“I’m sorry, in your what now?” I finally choke out.
Leaf falls backward on the couch, laughing like it’s the funniest thing he’s ever heard. I think he might still be high on the thrill of battle.
“Stripes? What do you mean you have stripes?”
“Well, yeah. I mean, we all do.”
I choke. “WHAT? And no one thought to mention that? That is something you tell a blind monster.”
“You have stripes now, too. Very faint,” Lirin purrs and straddles me. He traces his finger lightly over my face. Down the center of my bottom lip. “In shimmering teal.”
