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“I thought about it a lot in the beginning, before we got to our cabin.” He shrugged.
“Are you ready to leave all that behind?” I ran my hand through my hair.
“For her, yes,” he said immediately.
I nodded, not knowing what to say.
“You wouldn’t?” he asked.
I would be giving up everything for her, everything I built, years of hard work would be gone.
“Fuck, King, I thought you of all people would be ok with this,” Boogie growled.
“Well, sorry I don’t jump into shit headfirst without thinking about the consequences, which is how we got into this situation," I snapped. “We would be giving up years of fucking hard work and time we took to build Halloween Town.”
“For the woman we love,” he said calmly. “Do you really want to know what it feels like not having her in our life? What we are feeling now is a fraction of what we will be feeling in a week and even months from now because I can guarantee if we don’t think of something now, she will never look back.”
“We made it work before?—”
“If you think that was us making it work, you are delusional, King,” he chuckled. “We shouldn’t even be here, and you know the Mayor is going to find out we've been helping her and what happens then?”
I clenched my jaw, walking away from him. Boogie was right, but Halloween Town had become like a security blanket for me. It was the one constant in my life. I knew it was always going to be there no matter how shitty my life was, and I hated big changes, but for Ally, for her I would walk through hell and back.
“Set up a meeting with the Mayor,” I said. “This entire plan rides on her and you know she’s not going to just let us go.”
“No, but we will make her an offer she can’t resist.” Boogie grinned.
Boogie's offer was always death, and I just hoped his insane plan didn't include that, but that might solve a lot of our problems. I would kill the Mayor for Ally if I had to.
Chapter 29
Ally
Christmas Town was so quiet right after the holidays. We always had a rush of people a few days after Christmas, but after that we were pretty quiet till after New Year’s. I enjoyed the quiet calm that came, and there was always plenty of snow.
This year the silence and the calm drove me crazy. If it weren’t for the damn dog Boogie and King had given me, I would have died of boredom. Taking care of the dog had me thinking of my monsters all the time. The first two days I hated the dog, but he kept me company when I felt the loneliest, and lately my nightmares hadn’t been too bad with Zero around. I don’t know if it was the dog or my brain that sometimes made me feel like Boogie and King were with me at night. When I would wake up alone, it only made me ache for them more, and I swore sometimes I could still smell them on my sheets.
I woke up every day with a note from one of them. One of the damn triplets or Roman left it for me at my door every day. Some were short and sweet, like they missed waking up next to me, or the sounds I made when I came on their cock or how I always sighed when they slept with me.
The note from yesterday made me cry like a baby.
Ally,
I don’t want to be like the men who locked you up. My fear of losing you overrides everything, but all it did was make me just like them. I clipped your wings instead of giving you the lift you needed to fly. I became what I've always hated, and whether you forgive me or not, I will never forgive myself.
Boogie
Zero licked away my tears as I contemplated for the hundredth time whether to forgive them or not, or whether this pain was worth it or not.
“Noelle?” A knock on my door broke my thoughts.
“Yeah?” I called out
Maverick peeked her head through the door.
“You ok?” she asked, as I sat up from my bed that I had yet to vacate for the day.
“Yup, just catching up on sleep,” I said as Zero growled at her.
