𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬

Chapter 45

Two days, forty eight hours, two thousand eight hundred eighty minutes, and one hundred seventy two thousand eight hundred seconds.

It was quiet, but even so, I was not alone, and I didn't feel lonely. For a hand held mine whilst I slept, an arm embraced me whilst I stared outside the window, and a woman accompanied me as we waited in my room. I owed it all to her, because she never left, not even when I spent the entire day sitting on my bed, emotionless. Instead of leaving me behind to explore better companies, she stayed behind and rested her head on my shoulder. I asked her why she stayed even though I just kept staring at nothing, and she only shrugged. However, as odd as it sounded, I took comfort in her shrug.

Mallory and I never left each other's side, in fact, we never left my room. Why would we? We had each other's company, and that, alone, was enough. Leaving my room meant answering questions, questions my heart was not ready for, so I stayed put here, and my mate followed along. But she didn't complain, no, she sat beside me and held my hand without any hint of boredom, regret, annoyance, and hatred.

We spent both days with each other, holding, embracing, kissing, cuddling, talking, sleeping, and loving. But today, we would still do the same, the only difference was that someone was finally coming back to join us. Today was the day for her return, and it felt nerve-wracking, exciting, and relieving all at once. Mallory and I had each other, we did, and we acknowledged that, but we knew something was missing, after all, our love was for three, not two.

I missed her, a lot. Why wouldn't I? She was my mate. Even though my pathetic mind was a whirlwind of scattered thoughts and emotions, my heart remained stubborn. I could feel all of the emotions in the world, and I'd still miss my mates when they're not with me. I knew Mallory felt the same, for she wouldn't stop looking at the wall clock either, she was waiting for our mate as much as I did. It helped that we still had each other, but we weren't complete, and we knew that.

Usually, people would say a heart only has two sides.. and I wholeheartedly agreed. After all, my heart only has two sides as well, Mallory's side, and Gaia's side, both of their sides made the heart itself, and right now, in this moment, I was waiting for my other side to finally come back home and make me whole again. Being away from your mates was quite the torture, I wondered why I agreed so easily to Gaia's concerns.

I was staring at the door, I just couldn't help it. I was expecting her to just barge in and make her presence known like the demigoddess we knew she was. I wanted her to enter the room, to jump into my bed, and to cuddle between Mallory and I.

"Little one?" I looked beside me and saw Mallory stretching as she willed herself to wake up.

"Good morning..." I whispered, leaning over to plant a small kiss on her forehead.

I was talking again, and oddly enough, it was because of my Mallory. Since we spent the whole two days together, Mallory kept urging me to talk, she'd say she missed my voice, and she'd beg me to keep talking to her about nothing in particular whilst she laid her head on my chest. I didn't mind, for I knew I would go crazy as well if I didn't hear Mallory or Gaia's voice for more than a week. It still pained me that I made them go through that, and I beat myself up everyday because of it, but I was still glad they never left. I neglected them, and they stayed. I can fuck up everything in the world like the pathetic failure that I was, but I won't let myself fuck up my relationship with my mates, not anymore.

However, on the other hand, there was also my sister who still had no idea that I had begun speaking once more. To be honest, I've not heard news of her and Sapphire yet. Perhaps they were taking some time off to focus on each other, and since Weiss knew that I was with my mates, she figured I would be safe. It was only a speculation as I truly had no idea where she was, but if this was truly the case then good for her. I heard Sapphire and Weiss did not talk for more than a week when I was asleep, all because of me, and I hated myself for this too. I hated a lot about myself truthfully.