Page 81 of Forever My Siren Luna

Ela leaving me didn’t feel a fraction as bad as this.

“You’re a fool,”Oisin tells me in a cold voice. “An utter fool.”

That I am. I feel more so than ever, and the burning itch of thirst is so much greater than before.

The yearning I felt for Ela is incomparable to this ache radiating through me now.

What is that saying? You don’t know what you have until it’s gone?

Surely Beretta isn't gone from me. She told me to do that. She told me to get this out once and for all and face Ela bearing my feelings on my sleeve.

She can't hold it against me for doing what she told me to do.

"She can and I have a feeling she will,"Oisin said.

Goddess, I hope he is wrong.

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Lachlan

I saw him walk away, and then noticed right away that Cedric and Cherum had come back alone. I wanted to search for her right away, but I waited. I trust her. I know she can handle herself.

These past weeks have been bliss, and she has allowed me every opportunity to show that she is mine. She has been so considerate of me. I know I should do the same, no matter how hard it is to hold myself back.

I’m not even training anymore. I can't even pretend. I’m just watching the walkways, searching for any sign of her return. It isn’t long until I see her walking around the armory and into view with a solemn expression on her face.

Killian began to growl, worried she had been hurt in some way.

“I’m fine,” she reassured me as I approached her. Her smile is sweet and sincere.

She reaches up to rest her hand on my face, smoothing the worry lines from my skin. My expression must show how worried I was.

“Did he hurt you?” I have to ask.

She lifted a brow, a telling smirk starting to form on her beautiful lips, easing a lot of the tension inside of me.

“You think I would let him hurt me?” She shook her head with a scoff. “Are you doubting my abilities?”

“Never,” I smile. “I’m just….” I shrug.

“I know,” she sighed, rubbing her thumb on my cheek to soothe me further. “He didn’t hurt me. I just…. I just finished everything for good. I let him know it could only be you. No one else would ever stand a chance.”

My heart leapt at her words. I pull her in, my mouth meeting hers in a frenzied kiss full of relief and so, so much love.

Her returning kiss is just as desperate, and by the time we pull apart, we are both panting for air, foreheads resting on one another's so we can feel the mixture of our exhaled breaths, literally breathing each other in over and over again.

“I want to mark you,” she whispered hoarsely. “I’m ready, Lachlan. I want to mark you….. And I want you to mark me too.”

Killian’s excited howls echoed in my head, but I could do nothing but stare wide-eyed at her, too scared that I imagined her saying it to even move.

Then, her thin brows pulled upward at a wary angle, and I could see the self-doubt forming inside of her head.

“Yes!” I practically yelled before she could think I was doing something stupid like refusing. I could never refuse her anything, especially this.

The doubt leaves her as a shy smile forms on her lips, her cheeks turning a gorgeous shade of pink.

“Yes, Lira. It will always be a yes to you. It’s what I want more than anything.”