Epilogue Two
ELLA
Ten Years Later.
A fter all these years, I never imagined I could love my husband any more than I do at this moment. I’ve spent the last week in bed, sick with a terrible case of the flu, and Theias has been picking up all my slack. Not that he minds. If it were up to him, I’d sit on a pedestal and accept his praise and love all day, every day.
This week, however, he’s had to help out with our five-year-old daughter's ballet recital. He’s been learning the moves so he can help her perfectionist heart get them right every time. He’s also been honing his skills on the Dutch braid she likes for practice.
We had three boys and only one girl before we called it quits on children so we could enjoy them all without the competition of more. We have one big, happy family, and no one gets left out.
“She looks just like you,” Theias whispers after our daughter runs off to show her brothers how well their daddy did her hair. Those boys love that girl nearly as much as her father does.
“But she’s all you,” I tell him as I lean back into his chest. “She has those boys wrapped around her finger.”
Our daughter is the epitome of a princess. Always in charge and forever innocent in the lives of the men and boys around her. I don’t think I’ve ever heard one of them tell her no.
“This the life you wanted?” Theias spins me around to gaze into my eyes.
“Always. I couldn’t have dreamed up a more perfect life if I tried.” Pushing myself up, I drop a kiss on his jaw before he takes my mouth possessively, leaving little to the imagination about what he wants to do to me when all the kids go to my parents for the weekend.
It took a month from their arrival in Vegas before they approached Theias about Blake and some evidence they had to ensure that he never came near me again. To this day, I don’t know what it is, nor do I care. He’s gone, and I’m cherished and wanted by the only man who matters to my heart.
Theias loves us unquestioningly and without hesitation. And I give him the same in return. Together, we’ve created the perfect life and family and will never allow the past to get in the way of that.
The End!
Thank you so much for reading Monster, I hope you loved Theias & Ella’s story as much as I did writing it.
Coming next in the Kings of the Underworld is Primal , Carmine Cavanaugh’s story from New York.