Page 77 of Losing My Siren Luna
I stared up at her brilliant emerald eyes, lost in the fire in them for a moment. Even her anger is beautiful.
“That’s exactly it, Lira.”
She startles slightly, looking down at me wide-eyed. “He used magic on you?” she asks, and I nod. “So, it’s not that you didn’t tell me, but you couldn’t?”
Again, I just nod, praying that she believes me. I hope that my little progress with her doesn’t backslide again. I don’t know if my heart could take much more.
“Okay,” she whispers, gripping my hands back.
“Okay?” I repeated. “You believe me?”
The left corner of her mouth turns up a bit, and she nods. “My Lycan told me that if I tried to blame you for something that isn’t your fault again she was going to sing old-time ballads off key on repeat in my head for the next two years.”
I laugh breathlessly, feeling relieved that her Lycan is at least sticking up for me. I felt like I was fighting against everyone in my damn castle to get closer to Lira. It’s great to know that the one who is closest to her and constantly with her is arguing my case.
“She’s my mate. She said it for my sake, dumb butt. Of course she’s going to fight for me. I’m not a dumbass like you,” Killian says, but I know he is teasing me. He’s boasting with pride to hear about Val telling Lira not to blame me.”
“Thank you, Val,” I grinned, rubbing my thumbs on the back of Lira’s hands. Her eyes twinkle and I know it's Val watching. A deep purr came from Lira's chest, making her blush. My smile was so big that it felt like it was about to break my face.
Lira giggles, and the sound makes me want to sing. Actually, it makes me want to do anything I can to hear the sound again, including spilling tea all over the front of me over and over again if that is what it takes.
She looks down at our hands and shivers slightly.
The mate bond. Hell, I can’t wait to experience the sparks and tingles that come with the mate bond too. I keep running my thumbs on the back of her hands and watch her body shift and her face contort each and every time. The bond is getting to her. Now that her walls aren’t as high up and she isn’t fighting me, the mate bond is working its magic on her.
I might have a chance to win her over after all.
“Earn it,”Killian growls at me, “You don’t win her. Earn the right to receive her love. I won’t tolerate you manipulating the mate bond she feels to weasel your way in. You earn her. Do it the right way, Lachlan.”
“I know, jerk. I’m just saying, it's nice to know the mate bond can affect her. I’ll still be working my ass off to be a man worthy of her love.”
I have to. She still has thoughts of going back to the sea with her father. I can’t let that happen. I can’t lose her. If she chooses her father over me, I would be powerless to stop it.
“Thank you for having tea with me,” she whispers softly, “I feel better about things after talking to you.”
A smile erupts on my face, “I’m glad. I want you to always feel like you can talk to me.”
She smiles shyly, her eyelashes fluttering nervously, making her emerald eyes sparkle like jewels. “I’ll try,” she murmurs, “You are my husband, after all.”
I wish she had said mate. If she had said mate, I could have agreed and then the biggest secret, well, one of the biggest secrets I’m being forced to keep from her, would be out in the open and maybe our mate bond could grow even more. Maybe all this fighting against myself could end because the blood oath wouldn’t have as strong of a hold on me.
But she said husband, and all I can do is agree to that term for now.
“Well,wife,”I grin at the term while I’m wishing I could say mate, “What do you say to a walk around the castle grounds before dinner?”
She smiles beautifully at that, “Sounds lovely.”
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Elelira POV
“Thank you,”Val whispered to me in my head.
She was happy that I gave Lachlan a chance to explain himself a little, and I didn’t start accusing him of the worst-case scenario right off the bat. I wanted to, but the connection between Killian and Val in the bond is undeniable. That’s the only explanation for why I was feeling the way I was towards Lachlan. Why I was getting flustered with all of his actions and why I couldn't bring myself to fully hold on to my negativity and wariness towards him.
Maybe if our Lycans had met in our first life our marriage could have been like this. Maybe that’s what is different in this life compared to the other.
This life, I wasn’t an annoyingly eager blushing bride with high expectations staring down the aisle at our wedding when we first met. I was the complete opposite. I know I was cold and indifferent, and I will not apologize for that. I think I had the right to be after what I had been through in what felt like just hours before waking up here. I would have to be insane to be eager to repeat the past all over again. I was leery and distant, wishing for nothing but to escape.
