Page 69 of Blade

“Leo, I’m not trying to be distant on purpose. I just needed time to think, I guess, and speak to someone who isn’t in the thick of my family drama,” she says, and I wrap my arms around her and mumble, “It isn’t family drama, princess, it’s your past, your horrors.”

She hums as her eyes race between mine and says, “A past I didn’t want to drag you further into because I’m petrified it will scare you off.”

I rear back in shock and utter, “Luna, I told you that I loved you. I haven’t told another woman that before that wasn’t my mother or distant sister. Your past means nothing to me because all I want is you.”

She nods, her eyes tearing up, seeing my truth, and she asks, “If you are so scared I’m going to leave, why did you distance yourself after I killed him?”

“Because I thought you’d need space, and as hard as it was, I kept my distance from you except at night,” I admit. She half smiles as she leans forward and gently runs her fingers through my hair. I bite back a groan and keep my eyes locked with hers.

“Leo,” she whispers, “you are an idiot,” and I raise a brow at her. She sighs, “All I wanted was for you to hold me and not just while I was asleep. I didn’t want space, I just wanted you, and I-I thought when I kissed Drew, I ruined what you felt for me. We never even discussed labels…”

Okay, she’s right, I am an idiot.

“Damn,” I huff and grip her jaw, gently rubbing my thumb along it, and I rasp, “Luna, while yeah, it hurt to know some guy's lips touched yours, a guy, by the way, who has a death warrant on his head,” her eyes widen, “I wasn’t going to lose you over that, I just didn’t want to push you away that is all especially knowing that you are now free.”

Her eyes race between mine, and she admits, “You could never push me away, Leo, because I-I, I love you too.”

Fuck me, she said it.

My stomach tightens, and everything inside me settles; finally hearing her admit how she truly feels, I lean forward and slam my lips against hers. She gasps, allowing me to shove my tongue into her mouth, tangling it with hers.

She moans and leans into me, the sound going straight to my cock, and I hold her tighter, enjoying the feel of her in my arms while she’s actually awake, but as soon as I go to move my hand between us, needing to feel her heat, to see how wet she is for me before I thrust home for the first time in months, I groan as a dickhead gasps, “Ah for fuck’s sake, a brother doesn’t need to seethis shit,” cockblocking me and Luna breaks the kiss, her eyes meeting mine and I can see the hesitation in them.

“Fuck, let me know when you’ve finished eating my sister's face, fucker!” Axe demands, and I look around his sister to see his back to us. On the other hand, her mother looks at her daughter with a furrowed brow.

Great.

“Is it bad that I kind of enjoyed that?” she asks, and I look back at my girl and chuckle, “No, princess, it isn’t,” before pecking her nose and, slowly, she climbs off me, but she doesn’t go far. As soon as she turns to face her so-called family, I gently grip her hips and pull her down on my lap, not wanting her away from me, making her gasp and look my way with wide eyes, but I just shrug, not sorry at all.

Now that I’ve got my hands on her, I don’t want to let her go.

“Alright, Axe, it’s safe,” I say, and the idiot sighs as he turns, eyeing his sister on my lap.

“Does she have to sit there for this?” he groans, and I smirk, enjoying his obvious discomfort while Luna snorts and crosses her arms over her chest, and asks, “Do you have any idea how many times I’ve accidentally seen your dick because you forced me to spend so much time in the common room after work before I could go home? I mean, it isn’t every day a woman can say her boyfriend’s dick is bigger than her brother's, now, is it? So be grateful this is all you see because I didn’t get that over the years.”

Axe’s eyes widen, and his face pales, and I grin wide. I can’t help it, and he narrows his eyes at me and points, “Not one fucking word.”

I hold my hands up in defense while Luna sighs and asks, “What are you doing here, Taylor?”

He looks back at his sister with sorrow and answers, “I’m here to try with my little sister,” and I sigh.

The fucker hasn’t given her time to adjust, and even I know she’s not ready. She walked away, declaring she didn’t have a family, for fuck’s sake, and I can’t blame her, so the fact he is delusional enough to believe she should have stayed, then he’s more of an idiot than even I thought.

He looks back at his little sister and says, “You left. You haven’t answered anyone’s calls.”

Yep, he’s a bigger idiot than I thought.

“What did you expect me to do, Taylor? I finally got my truth revealed, and no one spoke up. No one apologized for treating me like an outsider, not even my own blood,” Luna snaps, and I gently wrap my arm around her midriff, hoping to give her some of my strength.

I’m trying to allow her to handle this, but I’m on edge, and if I need to, I’ll butt in. I just don’t know if she’ll appreciate it.

“You had just announced to everyone that I was blackmailing a brother to screw me!” her mother snaps, and even I fucking roll my eyes.

Luna snorts, “Everyone knew what you were doing, but because you’re Taylor's mother, they kept silent, which was pathetic considering Cleo is the one who looks after the brothers when they are injured, and as far as I’m concerned, you are pathetic for blackmailing him to begin with.”

“Luna,” Axe sighs, “you’ve broken them up.”

He has got to be fucking kidding. Seriously, he has to be….

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