I grinned, remembering the ceremony. It seemed so long ago that it had happened, like they had always been mine.
“I’m still scared.”
I whispered the truth. But now I wasn’t scared of them, I was scared of losing them.
“I won’t let anything happen to you, Little Human.”
“It’s not me I’m scared for,” I admitted, and his face softened, his lips falling on mine, a soft, tender kiss that had warmth radiating through me.
“I’m too obsessed with you to ever leave you earlier than the last breath you take. I want to be there for every single one,” he vowed.
It was so intense, but that was Kai. He was the intense one.
Brax was the softer one—eased into things, told me things like I was going to need time to process it, loved me like a beast but made sure to balance it with intimacy.
