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The fresh mark on my back tingles as if it’s in agreement.
“And you really all want me here? Forever is a really long time,” I tease.
Kai turns my face to his and grips my chin. “We gave you our grace. We wanted you to come back before you even left. If you hadn’t, I was going to follow you around like your own guardian angel.”
I smile brightly at Kai, and my heart beats impossibly faster. My gaze travels over the three beings that have given mesomething I didn’t know existed: Grace to be me. Grace to see my past, present, and future and learn from it. And now the grace to be with them, to create a future I never even dreamed possible.
“I want to stay,” I blurt out, not needing to think it over. “I don’t know what that all means yet, but I want to be with all of you, whatever that looks like.”
“You don’t have to have an answer this second, Greer,” Sam says.
Kai pushes Sam away and takes my face in his hands, laying a hard kiss on my lips. “Don’t listen to him; he’s too logical.”
I chuckle against his mouth before Remi pulls me nearly on his lap, his mouth devouring mine much like the first kiss he gave me on the couch downstairs. He licks past my lips, the taste of Sam still on my tongue, melding with his.
When he pulls back, I’m breathless.
“I agree with Kai, and I’m pulling rank on this. Let’s live in the moment and enjoy the gift we’ve all been given. I’m taking your yes as your final answer.”
I smile wide at him, my heart battering against my ribs when he smiles back. He nips at my lips before I turn back to Sam, the three of us looking at him now. After a long pause, he scoots forward until his lips hover over mine. “You really want to be involved with these beings?”
I raise a brow. “You’re included, aren’t you?”
His eyes soften. “I’m included.”
“Yes, I do. It may be fast, but when I’m with you all, it feels right. More than right—like fate or destiny,” I say, thinking of how this is like living one of my fated-mate monster romances. It’s ridiculous but the truth. I love it, and I think I’m already starting to love them.
Sam closes the remaining distance between us so our lips meet. His kiss is sweet and soft, everything he is and isn’t all at once. He reluctantly pulls back, and Kai tugs me down to the bed so he’s lying on his side next to me, our faces nearlytouching. Remi spoons my body from behind, and Sam moves back behind Kai, pulling a sheet over our naked bodies as our legs tangle together.
No more words are said, and I find myself drifting into sleep with that annoying hunger in my gut finally sated and the new wings on my back tingling in a reminder of what happened and what’s to come.
“Remi?” I ask before I can fall asleep.
“Yes?”
“No more life-altering trips when I wake up next, right?”
He chuckles, but Kai is the one who answers. “No trips. But sex?”
I trail my fingers over his half-hard cock, and he groans. “Definitely that.”
Remi kisses the wings on my shoulders, and I shiver from head to toe. “Like we said, love. You were made for us.”
My body heats, and Sam’s hand squeezes my hip, letting me know he’s there. My eyes drift closed, confident that when I wake up, I’ll be safely in the present, holding my past close, and looking forward to the future with three unlikely Nephilim as my guides.
PART V:
The Future
Epilogue
Samael
“Don’tyoudaretouchme, Malachi. I have places to be, and so do you!” Greer comes out of Remi’s—or should I sayher—walk-in closet looking beautiful in a form-fitting green dress that’s sexy yet modest at the same time.
In the five years since Greer has come to us, she’s blended perfectly into Elysian Pines and our lives. She has her own room, but we all spend most of our time in Remi’s suite or mine. She’s taken over both his closet and part of mine, and that’s after filling up the one in her room.
What can I say? While Greer has been imbued with our grace and has become one of Colorado’s top philanthropists, the woman loves clothes and looking good. Not that the three of us aren’t any different. There’s always something nice about dressing your best, regardless of who or what you are.
