All Legends In One

Chapter-Twenty-Four

Chapter - Twenty -  Four - I Love You...

Bethany's POV...

"That was how I started having panic attacks, they stopped after the year of my recovery was up, but they began again when I met you along with the nightmares. The last nightmare was the worse one so far. H-he had you chained t-to a m-metal be-bed and injected you with a si-silver liquid. Y-you kept screaming that it was m-my fault, over and over again-" My voice kept cracking as I looked up at him with tear-stained cheeks and puffy red eyes.

"Y-you said you hated m-me, Jack. I-I can't lo-lose you t-too, it'll break me beyond repair." He gathers me in his arms again as I break down once again in a hysteria of broken sobs.

"D-don't leave m-me too, Jack." I sob in his chest his hold on me tightening, trying to bring me as much comfort through the bond.

I pull away and caress his cheek in my shaking hands, "Y-you won't leave m-me, r-right? You won't l-leave m-me l-like he did, Will you? D-don't. Please don't d-do it." I whisper as my eyes skim all over his features in panic.

"Right?" I whisper in a broken voice as I stare into his eyes that were filled with sorrow as he takes in my state of hysteria.

He caresses my cheek gently and raises my head slightly, leaning down and placing a soft, feathery kiss on my trembling lips, making sparks shoot throughout my whole face.

"I'm not going anywhere." He whispers against my lips, his brushing so softly against mine that I hardly felt his touch, "My place is right beside you, my queen."

I felt as if an invisible weight was lifted off my shoulders as my lips pulled up in the smallest of smiles, the broken pieces of my heart laid in the palm of his hands as he pieced them back together. And at that moment, the last piece was in its rightful place as my once broken heart was now repaired and laid in the palm of this man in front of me. For once, in six years of silent pain and fear, I felt safe as I lay in his arms. In the arms of the man that was made for me. Made for loving me and me loving him with all I can.

I close my eyes. My mind a blank sheet of paper, with no thoughts taking over my mind and leaving me in a blissful state of silence.

I sniff and open my eyes to look at Jack as he stares at my face with emotions that no one has ever looked at me with. Love. Awe. Happiness.

But the one that stood out to me and left me weak at the knees was Admiration. The most prominent emotion of them all, dominating the other emotions present in his glassy eyes.

And right then, in that second, I knew that I loved the man in front of me with all of my heart, the man that could break me with a few words but treats me as if I was the most delicate flower. With a gentleness that I never thought possible.

And I knew that the world doesn't always have to be cruel, it had beautiful things too. Blissful things that would come to you in the least expected moment in your life.

Those blissful and beautiful things came to me in the shape of my Mate. The one that put me back together when he didn't even know that I was broken in the first place. The man that gave me everything he can give if not more.

"I love you." I sniff loudly and close my eyes as I snuggle into his embrace at his words.

"I love you too." I sigh in his chest, my words muffling in his top.

Jack freezes for a second before pulling me out of his embrace by gripping my shoulders and looking into my eyes which were wide with shock and disbelief.