CHAPTER 31.5: Love?


    I found Ve out in the garden sitting on the ground against one of the pirs. “Ve, do you need


    someone to go home with you?”


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    Ve stood up. “I’m fine.” She red at me. “I don’t need you or Cade or Lexus. I don’t need your help


    or your pity or their attention. Stop acting like you’re a saint Aqua, it’s annoying.” She walked past me


    andughed.


    I watched her. “What’s so funny?”


    She turned to me and shrugged while walking backwards. “Just have fun, I wish I did.” She shifted into


    her dragon form and flew off.


    I walked back into the ball and asked my father to send guards to make sure Ve got home safely. I


    often though that if me and Lexus weren''t mates or if we were, but he didn''t fall in love with me that I


    would have turned out like Ve, broken hearted, spiteful, a mess, and a distant regretful memory of


    Lexus. Maybe I that''s why I had empathy for her.


    I had got back after talking to Ve in time for thest performance which was Lexus ying the piano.


    It sounded different than in ss, he was doing his best and preforming instead of practicing and this


    time I knew he was ying for me. I was deep in the crowd so no one would notice but he kept eye


    contact with me the whole time.


    Sadia walked to me. “He’s really talented. He hates ying at these, but I’ve always wanted to watch.


    This is my first time being invited to one of their balls. My rtionship with Lexus is really everything I


    have right now.” I felt guilty because she won’t have it after tonight. “What happened with you and


    Calvin? He mentioned something about you being heart broken and not being interested. Are you still


    thinking about your ex? You can talk to me about it, is that why you were so upset the other day? Did


    your mom give you weird advice about him?”


    I shook my head. “Maybe we can talk about it another time.” We enjoyed the rest of Lexus’s


    performance in silence.


    Once the night was over, I started walking back to my room. “Hey.” I heard Lexus whisper, so I turned


    around. “Want to go for a fly? I dropped Sadia off ten minutes ago.”


    I bit my lip. “Okay.” I followed him out without anyone seeing us. He shifted and I climbed on top of him.


    I climbed to his head since he was flying slow and so he could hear me. I went on and on telling him


    about everyone I met and how much fun I had. “They’re so much different than my human


    grandparents. My mom’s parents were old and didn’t really talk to us much even when they were


    younger. They were just boring, I guess. They’d give us money to leave us alone.” Iughed. “I guess


    that’s why my Mom wanted to be here so bad. She grew up neglected and craved magic.” I wasn’t


    exactly neglected, my aunt and uncle spent too much time trying to steer me in the right direction. A


    direction I didn’t want to go in.


    Lexusnded in the cave vige with the glowing crystals in the walls of the cave and glowing pixies. It


    was the same vige we had our boat ride the second day I was here. I climbed off and he shifted. We


    sat down against the wall of the cave. The cave was huge and bright. “I’m d you had a good time at


    the ball. Are you okay with us not getting married?”


    Iid my head against him. “I’m fine with it, it’s just documents acknowledging us as a couple. There


    aren’t many advantages.” There might be financial ones like in the human world but he’s rich so that


    didn’t matter.


    He shook his head. “Here we marry to mate, there’s a lot of benefits to mating. We won’t be able to


    mark each other because it would be a dead giveaway that we’re together and true mates.”


    I didn’t think about that. There are a lot of situations where someone could end up seeing his shoulder.


    “Oh… well that’s fine. We’ll just have to hold back.”


    “It’s going to be hard for me when we have sex. Last time I was pretty close to marking you. It’s a hard


    urge for me to ignore but we’ll figure it out.” I wanted to have sex with him again.


    I looked up at the cave ceiling that was so far up. “You won’t get to fully experience having a mate


    since we can’t mark each other.”


    Lexus rolled his eyes. “I told you that’s not why I’m with you Aqua.


    No one was outside in the vige. Everyone must have been in their homes. “What will Sadia do now


    that you’re not marrying her? How’s she going to get out the pack?”


    Lexus grabbed my hand to hold it. “She can still stay at the castle if she works there but it’s just going


    to be a longer and harder process,” he exined. “I’m not sure if she’ll want to, she might hate me after


    this. I fucked our friendship.”


    “I’m sorry about that.”


    Lexus kissed my forehead. “Yeah, it’s kind of your fault,” he joked. “Are you going to tell your mom?”


    “Tell her what? That I only took her advice for three days? I don’t know, I think the only reason she


    didn’t like you was because you were engaged. She didn’t want me ending up like her. We’re not going


    to have that problem anymore.” I sighed.


    Lexus grabbed my chin and pulled my lips to his. We made out for a while then got up. “I have a bad


    feeling.”


    “What kind of bad feeling?” He frowned.


    “No not that.” I quickly corrected him. “It’s my intuition, something bad is going to happen but I don’t


    know what.”


    Lexus looked around. “Let’s just get back to the castle then.” He shifted and flew us back to the castle.


    He went to his room and I went to mine.


    Even though we were safe at the castle, the bad feeling didn’t go away.