Page 171 of Tease Me (Dark Odyssey 1)

I reach over the bed and take her hand. Her dainty little hands.

“I wished we spent more time talking. I should have spent more time talking to you,” I say to her still form. She has that peaceful look on her face Tommy had and while it freaks me out I don’t allow it to get to me.

“I was so caught up with you and so damn into you that I couldn’t think straight. I just wanted to touch you, every day, all day. I don’t even know what your favorite flowers are. I bought you lilies. Calla lilies. They remind me of you. Sweet and delicate and I have this wild fantasy of you having the garden full of them. I make this pond for you at the house and you love it.” Now here’s where the fantasy gets crazy. “You worry though that our kids will fall in the pond because while it’s not that deep, it’s deep enough because we have coy carp there and the babies love watching the fish. We have a dog too, like the one you liked so much when we went walking that time. I bought him for you as a wedding present.”

It was a black Labrador that reminded me of the dog Tommy had as a kid. Mia loved the one we saw and it loved her. Of course it would. The lucky bastard was just as helpless as me when the angel touched him, stroking his fur.

My hands shake when I look around the room and see all the lilies I bought her. Maybe its best I stop thinking, and talking. I’m caught up in the vision of her though, so I continue the wild imagination of the couple I see in my mind. The people I wanted us to be.

“You were so shocked when I asked you to marry me, I’m not sure why though because you were always it for me… I thought I was in love once. I won’t deny I was. I won’t knock it either because it happened and I promised myself I wouldn’t let love come for me again. Then you came along. The difference between then and now is that I’d move heaven and hell to get you back. Fuck, I’d move heaven and hell to have the future I want for us. When I look at you I see forever.”

Fuck… I really am a little bitch. A tear rolls down my cheek and I can’t stop the next.

I start to bring my hand holding hers up to my face but the grip of her fingers stops me.

She grips my finger, my index finger and groans.

Part of me thinks I’m imagining things; the other part remembers what happened with Tommy and I freak out.

This can’t be it.

Her eyes, however, flutter open and tell me otherwise. My lips part when the angel looks at me with her sea green eyes and gives me a weak smile.

“Nick…” she breathes my name barely above a whisper.

“Mia!” I practically shriek and bolt to my feet.

“Nick… I … love you…”

All I can do is stare at her. I’m staring. She’s just woken up and those are her words to me.

“I love you too…” I pant, I’m trying to think. I have to get the doctors. Have to get them but I don’t want to leave her.

The weak smile widens and she looks around in a daze.

“Baby I’ll be back,” I promise.

“You’ll come back to me?”

I nod feeling elated, but also deflated.

She’s awake.

She came back, but that means I have to say goodbye.

I lower to kiss her lips and rush to get the doctors.

I only stay for a little longer, just to see its real that she really did wake up and that wasn’t part of the dream.

When her father and Chloe come I go.

One last look and I leave.

It’s my goodbye and my heart shatters.

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