The Hybrid Queen's Mate ✔ GxG

38

Athena Kings

I was leaving today and as much as I didn't want to leave Lauren, I had to. I had a duty to fulfill. I didn't need any clothes because I was just going back and forth, not staying the night. The drive to the Faerie Nation was one day maximum, fifteen hours minimum.

The other council members and I were going to check the hole that magically appeared. It was strange.

The Faerie Queen was worried and she voiced her thoughts to us. She wondered if it was grim magic.

It couldn't be.

Grim magic was... banned, banished, forbidden.

No one has done grim magic since the last 21 years and the user of it has been put down. There's no way she could possibly be using grim magic from where she is.

"Can't I come with you?" Lauren pouted as she wrapped her arms around my torso.

"No, mama. I can't risk you being in danger, especially when I don't know what we're dealing with as yet."

Lauren sighed and dropped her arms from around my torso and walked away from me.

"I'll miss you." She mumbled. I smiled.

"You'll see me like, midday tomorrow."

"And if I don't?"

"Then you have the right to beat my ass."

Lauren smiled faintly and I walked towards her and pecked her forehead.

"I lov- love what you did to your hair."

She's had this hairstyle in for the past three days.

Lauren looked up at me and frowned. Her head tilted sideways and she started smiling at me.

Was I about to tell her that I love her?

It's no shame that I do.

I wasn't scared to admit it to her but the fear of it being to soon haunts me.

We've been dating for what- 1 week? 2 weeks?

"Say it."

"Say what?" I feigned my confusion and I stared down at her.

Her brown eyes stared at me as a smile rested on her lips.

"Tell me you love me, Athena."

Now, imagine if that was not what I was going to say.

I'd be embarrassed on her behalf.

I smiled down at her.

"I love you."

Her smile widened.

"Say it again."

"I love you, Lauren."

Lauren smiled and wrapped her arms around my neck. She placed her lips on mine and I kissed her back, pouring my feelings into the kiss. Our lips fitted perfectly, like a jigsaw, and she soon pulled back.

I rested my forehead against hers.

"I love you." She muttered back.

I smiled.

The familiar feeling of happiness bubbled inside me and I wanted to run with my hands in the air and scream with joy. She loves me.

Me.

"Stop smiling like that. You look creepy." Lauren giggled and she placed with the hair on the nape of my neck.

"I'm happy."