Chapter 0354

Something has shifted between us now, after tonight after I've finally realized how deep our bond really goes. Luca and me- we're tied now, both in the nation's mind and in our souls. I don't really know how to describe it, even now as I watch him dancing with Jesse, both of them singing along to the music, looking gorgeous and young and free, like they haven't got a care in the world.

"Where do they get the energy," Benny murmurs, his arm still slung casually around my shoulder, and I glance at him, pleased to see as much love for our boys as I'm sure is beaming from my own eyes.

"I don't know," I say, a little wondering. "Must be something about warrior track that gives them...a crazy amount of stamina."

"Drugs," Ben says, nodding wisely and making me laugh. "They must put some kind of drugs in their water bottles. Or steroids."

"Very plausible," I say, grinning. He's right, though - Ben and I are wiped, but the boys - it looks like they could go all night.

Daphne, however, is defying our predictions - because the way she's dancing with Rafe right now, with a huge smile on her face as he turns her around and then pulls her close to him...

perfectly happy spending the rest of her life doing this. Unlike Ben and I, she

than happy to stay and bask in the happy

all of

him a little. "What

and were pounding your hand on the mat, shouting his name - it was intense, Ariel. And obviously way more

murmur, shifting my eyes back to

awesome," Ben replies, a little mystified. "Like, everyone could see the two of you connecting, see the way you brought him back. It was very cool."

little in the back of my throat, remembering that moment, wondering what it looked like from the outside. But,

that that might

that?" Ben murmurs, his

what?" I ask,

mated. You're just...always connected like that? Can feel

god, no," I say, my eyes going wide as I glance over at Ben before returning my eyes to my beautiful mate, laughing with my cousin as Rafe and Daphne come back over to

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