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Her Moon, His Song Ch. 57
CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN:~Avery: I tossed and turned for a while. Something just felt… off. But I couldn’t name what it was until I finally realized something was missing. Or I guess, someone was missing. My first thought was that he was in the bathroom. It was still dark out, and he said he wasn’t going to be separated from me again… so he couldn’t be anywhere else, right? A pit at the bottom of my heart shook. Something felt wrong, like I wanted to believe that but knew it wasn’t true. I waited, my eyes adjusting, and then it hit like a freight train. He wasn’t here. I flung the sheets off me and bolted to the front door. Outside. He had to be outside. Running, checking the perimeter like at the cabin right? My hands shook as I walked out into the cool night air. I tried scanning the area for auras but couldn’t make anything else. The familiar need to hold onto my magic gnawed at me, making the lack of magic even more stark. “Drake?” I halfheartedly whispered. “Uh,” a voice cam
Her Moon, His Song Ch. 58
CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT:~Drake: Dane pushed me to shift right as the vampires took off with the first set of guards. And in one swift movement we were in Dane’s form and pushing Avery gently behind us. ‘I can do the honors,’ Archer had just linked right before the guns appeared. ‘I think you all may want my help,’ I sent back the moment Avery was behind me. Shots went off and Avery was well hid behind our form. We turned briefly to nudge her to a smaller position behind these trees. We looked at her for a long moment as shots rang through the area around us. She nodded, seeming to understand. And then when I heard a break in their reckless firing I charged out. Yes, a huge gamble that these guys too had regular weapons and not anything crazy. And it actually worked. For a few minutes. In the stampede of our small but mighty group entering the field, I shouldn’t have been that surprised when I heard Archer call out. ‘Goddess! What is this?!’ he asked frantically through the link.
Her Moon, His Song Ch. 59
CHAPTER FIFTY-NINE:~Avery: “Okay, I’ve never seen anything like that. What is she?” someone asked from behind me. “That was incredible,” another voice chimed in. “Shh!” another voice ordered. It was silent then. I’d been struggling with my magic from the treeline. I could feel exhilaration that wasn’t my own, that had to be Drake’s, as he fought out there. The feeling was so similar to drinking in darkness that it felt like it was busting open the separation between me and it. That’s when I saw her, her aura. I knew I had to try. There was more light in there than darkness and I knew I could talk to her, get her to see, help her. When Dane’s form walled me off there was so much twisting in her, darkness threatening to intertwine into her light, and I tried, I really tried. It’s so hard to find the right words when you only have seconds to change fate. But it wasn’t enough. They weren’t the right words. They weren’t fast enough. I don’t know. All I do know is that one second
Her Moon, His Song Ch. 60
CHAPTER SIXTY: ~Drake: When she left me standing there I couldn’t believe it. I was frozen in time. Dane whined and whimpered. He howled. I just stood there, dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe how profoundly I’d ruined everything. It had taken so much time and trust and I went and- ‘You idiot,’ Dane grumbled, hurt. ‘We. We are idiots,’ I corrected him. He didn’t say anything back. He knew I was right. We’d gone into full instinct and hurt our mate majorly twice in less than twenty-four hours. “Sorry,” I heard Archer’s voice from farther away but within my earshot. “I don’t mean to interrupt, but Alec is itching to get back to his brood.” “Yeah,” I said, the words barely finding their way out. “Just give her time. She just needs some time,” Arch added. I just nodded. Everyone left the area and I just stood there until it started to get dark. I was probably pushing it. There was no way to know if this facility had any more people coming. I looked back towards the directi
Her Moon, His Song Ch. 61
CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE:~Avery: I’m not sure what I expected to happen when I finally faced him but it wasn’t this. But my heart broke when he explained what he’d seen and I realized what an idiot I was being. I felt like a child. I hadn’t given him any time to explain why he’d left, why he’d done what he’d done. But I understood now, better than ever. It was like something clicked in me, in us. Somehow I felt everything through this kiss, like I understood the universe.I thought running from this was noble. I thought being together was risky. And it probably was risky. But I was making it worse by running away. I knew in my heart we belonged together. Something shifted in me then. I finally understood. It was like finally understanding a complex math problem, or like finally finding that tiny typo in your coding.I moaned into Drake’s mouth as the electricity from our touch built in me. He held me tight to him before laying me gently in the grass. He seemed to be gentle and demanding al
Her Moon, His Song Ch. 62
CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO: ~Drake: If this is just a fraction of what it feels like completing a bond, I can’t even fathom what it would feel like to mate as a marked couple. I could barely hold myself back the whole time, I wanted to please Avery, to take care of her, but at the same time I had a desire to be buried deep inside her and never have more space than that. Ever again. I never intended to mate my Avery outside in the trees, but somehow it seemed right that way. It satisfied some primal part of me. I looked at her now, watching her gentle breathing in my arms.
Her Moon, His Song Ch. 63
CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE: ~Avery: I thought for a moment before nodding, a silent ask for him to continue. I had to know everything. No more running from this life, from what we might have to face. I felt my whole body tense like I was preparing for some kind of assault. I tried to relax but knew I wouldn’t be able to until I finally heard this. No more secrets, no more ignoring what very well could be reality. “Okay - again - I don’t put too much stock into this,” he glanced at me again. I just nodded once more, still stiff. “Beatrix calls you Queen Mothe
Her Moon, His Song Ch. 64
CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR: ~Drake: It felt good to be heading home. Well. That and other things. It felt natural to be heading back towards where my pack was, but with everything there waiting for me, and the knowledge of my parents’ slaughter… well it was a lot. Avery insisted on taking a turn driving. She was currently scanning the radio for something, I wasn’t sure what. She’d passed by a couple songs that weren’t half bad. She listened for a few seconds before scrunching her nose in distaste and changing the station again. The windows on this old beater we bought from a junkyard couldn’t close up all the way on the driver’s side but instead of letting me cover the gap somehow she had insisted that the fresh air was good for us. So now her hair flowed a bit like she was using a little of her magic. Her hair had grown out a lot since before she’d been taken. As much as she looked beautiful when I met her, and each time she’d changed her look, I much preferred her natural strawberry-b
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