Page 91 of Healing Fate

“I’m glad you’re going to be okay,” I told her, letting her hug me as I fought back against the emotional rollercoaster I was internally riding.

Before the others joined in, I motioned for Micah to get me out of there. I was still dealing with the emotional aftermath of such a personal healing.

People stopped and stared as we passed. Some whispered, many cried or waved. Word of what I had done was already spreading quickly.

I didn’t say much on the ride back to my house. Vada fell asleep in her car seat, and I didn’t protest when Micah parked and carefully lifted her into his arms. I relinquished control to him as he walked inside and put her to bed before returning to help me.

“It was her, you know? I was right there, and I tried working on it, but there was so much damage. When Vada jumped in, there was this indescribable jolt of energy that finished the healing, Micah. I’ve never experienced anything like it before, not even pulling from your energy through our bond. You were right. She’s powerful.”

“I know. But she’s going to be okay because she has us. It might be a little more than potty training and learning to read, but we’ll teach her what she needs to control it.”

“It really doesn’t bother you? We have no idea what her future will look like.”

I didn’t voice those fears often, but if I couldn’t with my mate, then who could I? Suddenly it all felt like too much for just me to bear alone.

“Hey, that’s our child and she’s wonderful and unique. We will celebrate her differences and raise her in spite of them. We won’t fail her.”

I stared at him as tears burned my eyes.

“Our child?”

“Our child,” he insisted. “I told you; I’m going to adopt her and make it official, but that piece of paper doesn’t make her magically mine.”

I nodded trying to stay strong while feeling overwhelmed with all that had happened today.

“I’m not sure what we did to deserve you,” I teased.

His smile was slightly crooked as he shook his head.

“I’m the lucky one here.”

He pulled me into his arms and kissed me, but then he frowned against my lips as he pulled back to look at me.

“I’m fine,” I insisted feeling his worry.

“I know you, Luce. I can feel you. You aren’t fine.”

His words set a crack in the damn I’d been hiding behind and I couldn’t stop the tears from falling. I incoherently tried to explain it all as he lifted me into his arms and carried me to bed.

Micah

Chapter 22

I didn’t want to leave Lucy alone today to deal with everything that had happened, but she had stubbornly insisted. She got up and got Vada ready for school like it was any other day.

“Keeping a strict routine helps her, and me,” she had insisted. “Plus, I have some work to finish up at the office and some errands to run. I’ll be fine. You need to go about your day as usual. It’s Wednesday, you hang out with Westin Force today, right?”

I had wanted to lie to her and tell her that only happened some of the time, but we were growing close quickly now and she would have known I was lying. So in the end I’d conceded and gone home to dress for the gym even though my heart, and my wolf, wanted to be with her instead.

As soon as I stepped into the gym, Silas threw a ball my way.

“You missed our run this morning,” he said gruffly.

I scowled. I’d had a lot going on this morning and had struggled with leaving Lucy, but I wasn’t about to admit that to him.

“Still hasn’t sealed his bond,” Grant said definitively. No doubt his wolf sensed it. “So don’t go too hard on him.”

“Why the hell not?” Baine asked.