And Then There Were Four (Lilith Carrie)

Chapter 52: Accepting the Future

Damian POV

When I walked into the house, I knew it was late. I knew my brother James wouldn’t fight the urge to see her. Out of all of us, he cared for her the most in the past.

She was everything to him.

His first real love. His only love.

“You’re awake.” James turned from the open fridge towards me and nodded. No longer was he unkempt and dirty. They must have had fun because he was now freshly shaven and showered in my kitchen. “Where’s Ivy?”

“Sleeping.” He quickly retorted as he placed a bottle of water on the counter with the sandwich he had obviously made. “Care to explain to me what happened?”

“Are you going to actually listen this time?” I responded with a smirk as I walked towards the counter taking a seat.

James wasn’t impressed by my attitude but nonetheless, he rolled his eyes and shrugged, “don’t push it, Damian. This was all your fucking fault to begin with.”

Pressing back the annoyance I wanted to lash upon him, I squared my shoulders and let a breath escape me. “I understand I fucked up in the past, James. I can’t change the past, but I am trying to fix things now if you will help me.”

“Help you?” He snorted, that’s rich.”

“I’m serious. We came here to find you first. Next, we are going after Hale.”

James stared at me with a blank expression, “he left too?”

Nodding, I sighed. “You all did. She woke up, and I was the only one still there for her.”

My revelation made him flinch, but no matter the guilt he may have felt, I knew why he did what he did. I wanted to do the same thing, but one of us had to be there when she woke up.

“How could I not feel the bond before, but as soon as she touched me, I could? That shouldn’t be possible, Damian.”

* I know.” He was right. It shouldn’t be possible. “I took her to see the seer. She explained that Ivy is favored by the goddess, and now the bond has been left to her. She can choose a normal life, mating with one of us or a few… Or she can have us all. At the end of the day, though, it’s her choice.”

didn’t run for a normal life…” he murmured with

are here, and from the looks of it, I take it she rekindled her

“I didn’t think she was

inquired,

the fuck alone, but then I saw her. How happy she was, and I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Seeing her again was too

I saw her in the hospital awake as well. Even

of us sat there in silence for a moment before he looked up at me again, “why haven’t you bonded with her

front of

hadn’t I marked her when

right.” I responded, looking at him again, “I want

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fuck her first but not mark her. That makes a lot of

at his jealous remark, I ran my tongue over my teeth, trying

correctly, you all were fucking

fire swirl within his eyes, “because you didn’t fucking want her. Remember

didn’t want her, James. But that is what you

“you didn’t want to be tied

wanted her to have a normal life, dammit. Was that so hard to

point in time, we all wanted her to have

refused what I told them to do, but they didn’t. They

didn’t have to leave, James. Even if

as he clenched his fist, “fuck you, Damian. You put that shit in our heads and made us feel like we had no choice. We all love her, and you only now see what we lost. How important she is in the long run. She was gifted to us by

right.” I replied with a smirk crossing my arms over my chest,

her as my mate that there were going to be problems. The idea of one woman being mated to the four of us was

been one for sharing, and

I wanted it more than anything. I