@reignthem asked: “ how long until you realize i’m here to stay? ”
" I know you are, " came Alex's concession: a quiet one, a sincere one, unmoored by the tremulous bob of her throat as she swallowed.
The bold and uncomplicated truth of that statement — I'm here to stay, I am not going anywhere, ever — wasn't something that could be denied or underplayed; not anymore. Not with Reign condemned to the same dark, elemental, primordial ooze from whence she'd come, the wounds she'd inflicted already metamorphosed, somewhat, into far more manageable scars. Not when they'd already surpassed so many herculean hurdles.
The alternative, given all that they'd been through, was just too tragic to consider. Too much to even entertain the thought of.
" It just feels too good to be real. " Too precious to be anything but a waking dream, like the flutter of the pulse in Sam’s wrist, tangible beneath the ginger graze of Alex's fingertips.