And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Damian.

I never really thought about what it would be like to die. However, the moment I faced it, the only thing I could think of was Ivy. Her beautiful blue eyes. Her long, enchanting hair. Not to mention how she trembled beneath my fingers when I took her, kissed her, and loved her. The way she deserved to be loved.

That moment ran through my mind often. Plagued my dreams with nightmares as I tried to forget what had happened. I was alive now.

But, even though I was, it didn't stop the nightmares from coming.

Two days ago, I opened my eyes. Two days ago, I breathed life into my lungs once more. Now that I was awake though, it forced me to face everything that happened, and the one thing that upset me the most was Ivy... my beautiful mate was unconscious. From the looks of it, she didn't seem like she would wake up soon.

I felt bad that she was injured, but my brothers repeatedly reassured me that she knew what she was doing. That she wasn't dead, so that we simply had to give her time to wake back up.

I couldn't help but worry, though. What if she didn't wake up?

What if we lost her again because of me... because she saved me?

Slowly, they had filled me in with all the details of things I had missed. Chaos that had happened. Things that happened to Ivy, and even the day she gave birth to our children. They helped me pick up all the missing pieces, so nothing was left out. I was still broken, though.

To know I had missed out on the birth of my children killed me.

this second chance at life to fix things that had happened to me previously. I would learn to forgive and forget

person with

would have been like had I not been part of it. What they would have gone

still, I couldn't help but wonder what they would have missed out on without me

made me whole again, and for that, I would be forever

lay, sleeping peacefully. The soft pinks of her lips were so plump, so delicious. I wanted more than anything to kiss her, but in the end, I only wanted her to be awake. For me, to hear her reprimanding me for some stupid shit

me

me in my place, that was all that

wanted to have

that

tried to make

needed to do that.

herself on the line for one of us, because I was

my shoulder at him. He walked from the open doorway of Ivy's room, through the passageway to the nursery, and smiled down at

the fact that I've missed out on

up multiple times in the middle of the night. So you can have all of those shifts."

times over if it meant being able to have my