Page 155 of Darkest Deception

I nod.

Helia takes the ring out of the box, one I didn’t even notice, and slides it on my finger. An emerald diamond stone is surrounded by smaller circle-cut diamonds; there has been nothing more perfect for me.

Helia stands up, grabs my face, and gives me a kiss that seals our fate.

When he pulls away, we both are breathing heavily as rain pours down above us once more, as if in celebration of us becoming one.

I softly run my hands all over his face, over the scar across his eye, over his midnight hair, his nose, his cheeks, and his lips.

“I also kind of bought you an emerald mine.”

“A mine?”

He nods cheekily.

“An actual mine?”

“But for emeralds,” he murmurs against my lips.

“This was why you extended the house, right? So you can fill it with babies?”

He shrugs with a proud smile.

A laugh spills out of me, and Helia watches me with a grin under the rain.

The End

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