The Badass returns (completed)

Epilogue

Epilogue

Eight months later

Lexi's POV

I pushed my sunglasses down from my head and covered my eyes from the glaring sun. My hair felt sticky with sweat, I hadn't expected it to be this hot here. The uncomfortableness kept me on edge as I headed towards the vending machines, desperate for something cold to drink.

"Are you angry?" he asked rushing after me. I flicked him off as I began pushing buttons.

"You have to stop talking like this, we are here for business. This." I paused pointing between the both of us. "Is never going to happen,"

No matter how much it hurt my heart to say it I meant it. For the last six months I had given the life I loved away to help track father across the world. As terrible as it was I was having the time of my life. Enjoying the thrill of seeing all the different places but I still missed home. I still feared that I would never get to go back again.

At first when I had agreed to help Jason, we had been just friends, but slowly that formed into something more. Into turned into a desperate need to be with each other, together. But as time went on and we kept encountering danger I realised that we would never be able to be truly together. Because if we choose to cross that line then our world would be over.

Then all our enemies would be able to play the game. Jason would put his life in front of mine and I would put mine in front of his.  There had already been threats to the boys that something would happen to them if I carried on this crusade with Jason. And so I had done my best to hide who I was. I had changed my hair, my look, my name in the hopes that nothing would tie me back to them. Therefore, I refused to let loving him put anybody in risk. And so I kept us at a distance doing everything I could to not give into his love. I knew what he wanted but I also knew what was for the best.

If we became something else then I feared that he would throw this mission away, which would mean eventually that Damon would come after both of us and my boys. We had to keep working, charging forward after Damon so he didn't have the time to attack us back, not at his full force. We couldn't be distracted for a second. Not one.

I grabbed my drink and headed back towards my hotel room desperate to get away.

"You know you want me!" He yelled as I began to walk away. I paused and turned around, shooting him the deadliest glare I could do.

"I wouldn't want you if you were the last thing in the world." He laughed mockingly at me before steeping closer. His smile turning to an evil glare.

"Well soon I might just be the last thing in your world,' He whispered. His words weren't spoken loudly but they made me shutter. He was right. At the rate that everything was going he might be the only person left in the world who would actually talk to me. Even if it was only to tease me.

"And whose fault is that," I snapped my fist balling up at my sides.

"And I would do it again in a heartbeat." He replied instantly. Softly he grabbed my hands and opened them, placing a kiss on each before placing them back at my sides. "You know what you mean to me Alexis. You know I care for you." He said his words turning from menacing to sweet. He was the only one that called me by my first name. I hated it but I knew that there was no use complaining because he wouldn't stop.

"And you know that I hate you with every fibre of my soul." My words were meant to hurt him, to make him feel terrible for everything that he had done to me but instead he just smirked.

"Yes but you also love me with every fibre of your soul. Don't you Alexis?" He whispered leaning his head down to mine. I could feel his breath fanning against my lips.

"Yes but you also know that we will never have each other." I whispered, looking him straight in the eyes. I moved back a little so that I didn't fall into temptation. So I didn't let him see how I really wanted him. So that he didn't know that I wanted nothing more than to give in to him and his charm.

"Because proving you loved me would be too dangerous." He stated, wiping the small frown that had appeared on my forehead whilst I was concentrating.

"No because proving I loved you would be deadly." I muttered.

A/N

So that is the end of the book. Let me know what you think. Let me know if you want another book in the series. Comments and likes please.

It has taken me years to complete this book so I know it isn't my best work. But I would be keen to carry on with the story.

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