Page 89 of Lovers Fate

He gets up abruptly. I look up and see the murderous look in his eye. “Death only hurts when you’re without the one you love.”

“My wife said those words when we lost…” I trail off the grief hitting me in full force.

“Your daughter. I’m aware.”

Of course he is. The cycle already began for him. Long before it did for me.

“What’s eating you?”

I slam fist down shaking the small dinette table. “That I have to find her again and when I’m not sure…I’m afraid to make a mistake,” I say instead.

“You’ll know.”

“It’s not easy for me like it is for you, Lazarus. Do you know what it does to me when I ascend back into who I am? I’m running around like a madman feeling nothing.” A pain hits my chest when the look of Athena’s eyes pops back into my head. “And when it happens. Bam! It hits me and then it feels like I’m dying, asking myself how could I have missed it. How could I not bring her back to me.”

“It’s not easy for me either but you need to trust that she will always come back, Draco. She will always come back.”

“Yeah, and this time, she was in a fucking mental institution fighting some asshole and I wasn’t there to save her.” I close my eyes briefly from the rage vibrating in my blood wanting to strangle the motherfucker and kill him my way. “When I realize what I’ve done, I’ve already pushed her away.” I let the pieces of the ticket go from my hand falling like dead leaves to the floor. “She doesn’t know who she really is.”

“Then fucking change it. It’s not too late, Draco.”

I shake my head. “You don’t understand. My fucking son hates me. Kaden hates me.”

“He understands you aren’t…weren’t you.”

I scoff. “Easy for you to say, you don’t have kids.”

“I did,” he says quietly. “They just died. A long time ago.”

I forget he shares the same pain. It doesn’t matter if it was centuries ago and for very different reasons.

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said that.”

It’s hard for him too, and on top of everything else he has to see himself grow up countless times. It’s like we’re fucking clones.

He waves me off. “At least she knows you exist.”

“Where’s Kaden?” I ask, noticing his truck gone.

“He went to check on her after class.”

He’s pissed at me and I can’t blame him because I didn’t want to believe it.

“He’s a good kid but you have to remember Draco, he has his demons too. Dark ones.”

TWENTY-NINE

“Does he ever quit?”Rose says from across the bar.

It’s almost Halloween and most of the customers walking through the door are all wearing costumes but you can’t miss him. He is so tall, dark and handsome.

“Why does he give me vampire vibes?” Rose says leaning on the bar watching Draco scan the stage and then the tables.

I squeeze my thighs together not being able to control the lust that drips between my thighs every time I see him. My pussy has a mind of its own. It begs for his tongue while my head screams for me to run.

“Because when he bites, there is nothing left.”

“How would you know?” she asks with a glint in her eyes.

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