Epilogue
Love
Maakt is ours, and peace has been kept mainly by Dominik and my brother.
My parents are gone. However, Josh has kept our legacy at the highest peak it's ever been. Thomas kept his part of the deal. Kane’s, Ricik’s, Alakai and Denfell rule Maakt.
The police are pleased with the change since none of us wants external war, or major internal conflict.
All we want is the same as we ever did. To have peace and stay in control of a city that’s ours.
Only a few people know us for what we are. Previous mafia children, who’ve grown and made an empire out of their joint legacies. Dominik likes to call it a reign. His reign of chaos.
Dominik!
“You dozed off while we’re kissing, I feel offended!” Dominik says biting my lip.
“I was thinking of you, idiot,” I say and he smirks, wrapping his arms around me.
“You know this is all the romance I can give you?” he says moving on top of me, we were sleeping naked, we needed no clothes.
We’ve gotten so attached that we’re practically living this life together.
And I love that. Dominik has been nothing but protective, supportive, and caring.
And even if he thinks this is all the romance he gives me it isn’t.
Every smile, glance, every word, every wink, every kiss, every morning coffee waiting for me, meals with our friends, the aftercare he religiously puts us through after wild nights.
That I’d dare say has been daily, and not only due to Dominik.
He’s made me crave him so much, that even when he doesn’t initiate, I do. And those are the hottest nights.
It’s all progress in our relationship. I’m not the only one who changed him. He changed me. Dominik took me off my insecure protective shell, and showed me outside my walls there’s a whole world waiting for me open-armed.
“I live for that romance,” I say and it was the wrong answer. We’ve both got plenty to do, yet we’re going nowhere.
“Live, love, breathe, eat, preferably me,” Dominik says and I actually gain the courage to push him away. He follows me to the bathroom and corners me.
“Josh is waiting,” I remind Dominik, yet he always has an answer, one that favours us over others.
“We’re just taking a bath,” he says turning on the water and pinning me against the wall.
I was born and surrounded by chaos before him, now it is contained, in various chambers of my mind.
Everything is safely organised and properly shelved.
And all thanks to the chaos king that stole my heart, and showed me I too can be loved.
I, too, deserve to be the one and only of someone.
And he’s also my one and only. I’m glad of how things turned out.
I needed Dominik and he needed me. From the beginning, we just needed time and space to find a way to one another. We both believed we were doomed. Me to love someone who only likes me. Dominik to die killing without ever being loved.
I don’t know why or how fate worked this way but I’m thankful for it every day. And that’s a constant that will never change.
I’m the angel to his demons. He’s the chaos I choose to embrace.