Chapter 0965

He has much less, doesn't he?

"It leaves us as friends, Luca," I say quietly, meaning it very much. He lifts his eyes to me with a sigh. "We...start over from there. See where it goes." I smirk a bit. "I still own half your gym, after all."

He huffs a laugh, looking to the side. "I know. My uncle is pissed."

"Your uncle is a dick," I say, dry. Luca laughs harder at this, turning that gorgeous smile on me. And, as usual, my stomach flips a bit at the sight. "Are you coming back to school?"

He shrugs, clearly implying that he's unsure.

"Think about it," I say on a long exhale. "And...we'll go from here. But I'm sorry, Luca. And I forgive you and I care about you a great deal. I'm...very happy that you came today."

"Yeah," he says on a sigh, slipping his hands into his pockets, regret taking his features as I take a step away. "I'm glad too."

"I'll see you soon?"

He shrugs, tacitly agreeing to it but unhappy that this apparently didn't go as planned. "I love you, Ariel."

give him my best smile - a true one, not a Princess Ariel smile. "I love you too, Luca. Just...in a different way,

I get inside I turn my mind away from Luca, knowing I've got more important things to deal with right now. I rush up the stairs, eager as hell to find my mate and fill him in, to assure him that everything

coffee table with Jesse, a sleeping Seraphina sprawled chaotically over his lap. My cousin grins at me as I immediately stride across the room, heading for the hall and

grinning wickedly at me. "What have you

a hand and letting a bit of

that magazine?" Rafe calls after me, cheerful and entertained. "Seriously, who's the mystery hunk!? Is it

and working to steady my breath as I push open the door to my room. My eyes

to the big

on

edge of the teeny tiny bed

corner of the

over the hair of the little girl who struggles to keep

his

whisper, instantly

wasn't avoiding me - it's just that Marigold, like Seraphina, is exhausted and needed to go to bed. Relief flies through me as I push the door shut behind me and cross to them, only wondering for half a second how a kid

she did.

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