Page 114 of My Summer Girl

“Why do you call me that?”

A smirk tilts on their face, and happiness consumes me. “Because it means small child. And you, my giant love, are far from small.”

Love. They called me love.

I open my mouth to tease them back and they shut it before I get the chance. “Don’t ruin the moment with a size joke.”

Do they read minds or some shit?

“I wasn’t going to,” I lie, going for something even less believable. “Guess I should ask your favorite color.”

Chapter Forty-Six

Vex

Training Season – Dua Lipa

He’s troubled.

Not only over the sensations floating through the bond that don’t quite make sense. They’re fuzzy, like more unsettled and unclear than I’m used to, but also the result of meeting with his grandmother.

Through the bond, it’s as if Vera’s baser instincts are taking over and the control she’s always wrapped herself in has been removed.

I remember Dottie very well, but not of the pollination they’ve lacked for a long time. It makes me believe it’s something like that.

In all the years I’ve been alive, there are so many creatures and monsters alike. What this reminds me of are omegas and their designations, along with alphas and their predestination for mating and heats.

It’s not the same, of course. With how Vera mentioned flowers and the pollen they offer creating an almost-aphrodisiac and fertility, it makes me believe that perhaps that’s what’s happening.

It wouldn’t be so odd for her to not see what’s right in front of her face. A lot of us do this. When we laid in the fields waiting for our mates to return to us, the flowers sprouted, and a huge part of me thinks it has something to do with Dulce.

Our mate seems to have a magical touch... One that might just fix the problem this realm has been having. Cupid touch or not, she seems like the key.

The horses whinny as we arrive at the cottage deep in the trees. It’s one floor, but massive. Outside are trinkets—shiny, laden in the grass like an invitation for something, or someone, specific.

“They’re for the blackbirds,” Raev answers my unspoken curiosities. His smile is tilted and charming, and I know it’ll be easy to fall for this Orukna someday.

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