The Fire's Within

Chapter 42: Even Better

                            ☆Kaiden☆

I have never been happier in my life than I am now. I remember everything. Every detail. Every touch. Every kiss. Every freckle and mole on her perfectly soft skin. I can’t believe I died during my shift. I knew it would be harder as I’m an Alpha Prince, but I never expected it to be that bad for me. My dad would have just commanded me to complete the shift, which might have helped, but I doubt it. I’m not sure he’d have cared if I died to be honest. The strange thing is, I saw everything from her point of view as well.

It broke me to see her like that. Especially with how I’ve been behaving towards her. She was thirteen, scared, and in tears, and she never gave up, she did everything she could to protect and bring me back. I owe her my life because I wouldn’t have survived if she didn’t do what she did. I remember the magic Spirit and I had after, but that disappeared, I’m guessing with her being bound, because I remember showing Zye, and we looked pretty cool with our coats lighting up with magic. Come to think of it. He lost his magic coat as well. It has me wondering if that’s changed with the unbinding. If maybe, just maybe, I have a little magic myself now.

I do vow to never, ever hurt her again, and we will figure out what to do about my dad, but if it comes down to it and she doesn’t want to hide… then I won’t. Never again will I make her think I don’t want her, or let anyone else make her feel like that either, meaning I will be dealing with Zara as soon as possible. But that will be for discussion later, as we may have to get past our birthday first, but she will know everything beforehand.

When I wake up, I feel different. A good difference though, because she was right, I wasn’t myself, but now I am. Seeing I’m awake, Zye comes over and kisses me, sighing in relief.

“What? What is it?” I ask when I realize he’s worried, and he turns his head. I follow his line of sight to see Nyx sleeping beside me. I don’t get what he’s worried about though.

“Can you tell me what worries you so much? Because I don’t see -”

“I only passed out long enough to get the other half of the dreams… You really were a different person by the way… Anyway, she should have been the same and woken when I did.” He tells me. I already realised I was different so don’t even bother to comment or take offence. I don’t even know how she’s going to be when she wakes. Is she still going to hate me? I fucking hope not.

I look at her Aunt and the witch, Sage, and see her Aunt looks worried, as she bites at her lip while she stares at Nyx, and Sage is climbing to her feet. She turns to retrieve the drink Corbin comes in with, and she takes it, then takes a seat again.

“Well? Care to comment. You’re the witch that did the binding, are you not?” I grumble.

“Yes. But I warned her father as I will you, a binding has never been undone before, so I can not tell you what will or won’t happen. When or if anything will happen, or how long it will or won’t take. What I can tell you, is that her aura is not giving off any negative vibes. Other than a mix of emotions, that will be due to her memories. I’m sure it won’t be too much longer.” He says then takes a sip of the drink. Zye starts pacing and I sit in the seat close by, lucky the couch is huge, otherwise, we would never have all fit on it, and I wait for her to wake up. After ten minutes of me staring at her, waiting for her eyes to open, a top appears on me.

“Sorry. Was I distracting you?” I grin.

“Sorry, but yes. I’m worried about her, and I’m getting all hot for you sitting there all bare-chested, and looking edible...” He says, getting distracted for a second as he looks at me and licks his lips like he has x-ray vision and can see through the top he just put on me. Then he shakes his head, “We need to focus on her, not sex.” He grumbles, and then he starts pacing again.