I broke the trance we were both in. Tears flooded my gaze as the feeling of betrayal washed over me like a waterfall. I couldn't stop the sobs escaping my lips and the downpour of tears once they had started.
He stood a few feet from me, too far yet too close, his face screamed guilt and shame, while I crumbled.
I knew that he never meant it. I knew it was a trick used by the same witch that almost killed him but my heart was too broken to process what my brain was putting out. My heart shattered and every piece of it crushed to a thousand more tiny pieces. It was painful and made it hard to understand anything. I ran out of the room and straight into mine...locking the door and collapsing with my back against it.
It was like taking that arrow a thousand times over and yet it still didn't compare to the pain that was blooming in my chest.
I could sense him on the other side of the door. He was sitting by it to...his pain was almost as bad as mine. I could feel it, but I just needed time.
"I know you never meant it...I know it wasn't your fault and that you never would've done it, but it still hurts." I said through sobs.
"Kia?"
My sister spoke into my mind.
"Lavinia, can you guys just step outside for a little bit? We just need to air out a few things and I don't think I can do that with you guys downstairs." I answered honestly.
"Ok, sis. Just let me know if you need anything...including knocking him out and burying his body," she responded seriously.
I fought the smile that made its way to my face. I was lucky that I had a loving sister that would kill for me. I would do the same of course.
"Thanks, sis. I love you but I won't be needing your body disposal services...yet."
"Ok boo. We'll head out. Just let me know when the coast is clear. I need my beauty sleep."
"Will do." I close the link before another sob tore through my chest.
We stayed there mourning for a few minutes more. I was breaking and so was he...but sometimes you had to break to be whole again. You had to reach rock bottom to be able to rise, because even phoenixes rose emerged from the ashes with new life. I held on to that while cried.
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I finally opened the door. Ready to face him but I had not taken into account that he wasn't as ready as I was to move on.
He was still slumped over and his face buried in his palms.
"Nox?" I asked tenderly.
He didn't look up. "I messed everything up. I became the strongest alpha in 2 generations yet I let some halfbreed witch use me. I broke everything. I broke our bond. I shattered our moon."
I promised him long ago that I would never use my powers on him to make him fell anything different so I didn't, but I couldn't let him wallow in his guilt like this. So I hugged him and in the process, I absorbed some of his emotions...I won't take his pain away, but I can share it with him. This seemed to be the only way we could move forward. So I held on tight to him as guilt that nearly stopped my heart ran through me. Hurting someone through actions that were meant to help was one of the worst feelings ever.
"I can't change the past, Nox...not even the Divines can. But I promise that I will love you and be by your side till the day we walk to the moon. I'll always be yours and you will always be mine. Not matter what realm or era, we will always find each other. We were destined, you are my soul mate...no one is going to change that."
He looked into my eyes and leaned in to kiss me. It was slow, filled with love and promise.
"I love you, Princess Kiara."
"I love you too, Alpha Lenox." We both smiled.
"Say some thing. Anything. Something filled with love and promise like you did before."
I thought for a moment before I got an idea. "Ok, my love...but just keep in mind that these are words written by someone else."
He smirked which made my heart quicken. I leaned into his chest and drew with my fingers on his chest.
"I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouthful of forevers. We
have both known loss like the sharp edges
of a knife. We have both lived with lips
more scar tissue than skin. Our love came
unannounced in the middle of the night.
Our love came when we'd given up
on asking love to come. I think
that has to be part
of its miracle.
This is how we heal.
I will kiss you like forgiveness. You
will hold me like I'm hope. Our arms
will bandage and we will press promises
between us like flowers in a book.
I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat
on your skin. I will write novels to the scar
of your nose. I will write a dictionary
of all the words I have used trying
to describe the way it feels to have finally,
finally found you.
And I will not be afraid
of your scars.
I know sometimes
it's still hard to let me see you
in all your cracked perfection,
but please know:
whether it's the days you burn
more brilliant than the sun
or the nights you collapse into my lap
your body broken into a thousand questions,
you are the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane."
I looked up and he was staring at me with such love and pride that I thought I would implode. He then took me in his arms and stood up with ease, before walking to his room.
"Y'all can come back now."
I knew that they were eavesdropping, but I didn't care. We went into his room and slept, tightly pressed together with his arms around me.
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Hey fam!
Hope y'all are safe and sanitised. That poem is one of my favourites! It's called "A Mouthful of Forevers" by Clementine Von Radics. I hope y'all enjoyed this chapter and don't forget:
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