Chapter 75 Faye
“Hey, cowboy.” I sat on Jax’s lap and tilted his hat playfully. “I feel like we haven’t been alone in days.” I kissed his lips. There was a look of concern in his expression, his hazel eyes begging me for my attention. “What is it?” I could sense his hesitation.
Jax swallowed before speaking. “The Council, they saved you, sparing you Odin’s wrath, and I fear the reason why.” His eyes looked back and forth between my own. “They know you’re alive. They know you’re here. And, they know you’ve made your initiation, siphoning from both dark and light sources.”
The wind picked up and the trees and bushes began to sway. “They saved you, because they want something from you, Faye. Maybe not today, or even tomorrow, but whatever they want, it will come,” Jax sighed, caressing my thigh with his thumb, squeezing it in anxiousness.
“I am not afraid,” I contested. Jax refused to look at me with my admission.
He was terrified I could see the trepidation in his eyes, the fear, reflecting back at me.
“Hey,” I touched his bearded chin to face me.
“I won’t spend my life running anymore.” I intertwined his cold tattooed fingers with my warm infused ones.
Jax squeezed my hands and brought them to his lips, his mustache rubbing against my knuckles.
“I know you aren’t, but I am,” he said, the silence growing between us.
“I have something to show you.” I pulled an envelope from my jacket. Jax curiously opened the large yellow envelope, taking out a thick white packet, reading the first page. “I’m officially back to being a Robles.” Relief washed over me every time I said it out loud.
“For now,” Jax stated, deadpan.
“Grimwood, are you saying you want me to be your wife someday?” My flushed cheeks spread like a wildfire.
“Twin souls, remember? You are more than my wife, Faye. You are my partner, my best friend, my other half. Existing in this very body is the other half of my soul.” Jax massaged my shoulder gently, goosebumps following suit as he planted small kisses on my shoulder.
“I’ll never need a rock or a paper to tell me that. You are eternally mine, Robles.”
Jax stood from the rocking chair as it creaked, swinging back and forth. A raven flew in from the twinkling midnight sky, the luminous moonlight casting a reflection on its silky feathers as it soared by, dropping a black velvet box in Jaxon’s palm. He caught it mid air.
“Penny called Rocky to let her know the divorce was officially signed and finalized earlier today.”
My heart began beating heavily in my chest.
“It’s always been you, Faye Robles, the keeper of my sinister heart, my light, the counterpart to my soul. I love you in this lifetime, and in every lifetime. There is no parallel that exists where you do not own my heart, little witch.”
Jax slowly got down on one knee, his shadows opening the black velvet box before me.
In it lay a beautiful silver band wrapped with Nordic symbols and a gigantic exotic moonstone that sat gracefully in the middle.
I immediately recognized the stone as Diana’s.
I could feel my hands begin to tremble as reality slapped me wide awake.
Tears surfaced in my eyes and I didn’t even try to fight them, fight this, or him.
“I bet you won’t marry me, Robles.” Jax smugly placed the stone on my left ring finger. It fit perfectly.
“You’re on.” I tackled my Reaper on the porch floor, kissing him playfully under the moonlight as the stars twinkled with our laughter.
“I have one question before we ride off into the sunset, Reaper.” I interrupted.
“Ask away, my ljos,” he replied, pecking the top of my nose.
“What favor do you owe my cousin, Rocky?” I asked curiously…
Jax’s face went blank, “About that…” he retorted, nervously.
The End
(for now)