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."

my best smile - a true one, not a Princess Ariel smile. "I love you

hurrying into the palace. As soon as I get inside I turn my mind away from Luca, knowing I've

around the coffee table with Jesse, a sleeping Seraphina sprawled chaotically over his lap. My cousin grins at me as I

wickedly at me. "What have

me not, fiend!" I call to him over my shoulder, lifting a hand and letting a bit of my blue

magazine?" Rafe calls after me, cheerful and entertained. "Seriously, who's

to steady my breath as I push open the door to my

the big

on

of the teeny

of the room,

little girl who struggles

his

whisper,

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 bed got in here when neither of

course she did. My wonderful,

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