CHAPTER 41
She lay nuzzled against Kallias’s side. His left arm was around her, his thumb absently tracing circles against her skin as they stared up through their porthole to the stars.
It was beautiful, a million dazzling lights dancing in swirls of purples and oranges, and with only the crash of the waves beside them, it was as though it belonged all to them.
And when a star shot across the sky, Kallias lit up. “A shooting star! Didn’t you say that means we get a wish?”
“Yeah, and I also said I don’t believe a star can determine my fate.”
The corner of his lip puckered. “Don’t ruin it. Let’s wish to be together forever.”
She laughed. “You’re not supposed to say your wish out loud.”
“Well, I didn’t know that, but really, I think I just gave a suggestion.”
“Oh?”
“Yeah.”
She turned her head to look at him, and the intensity of his devious smile caused her heart to hammer away in her chest. “I wished for a lot more than that,” he said.
“Oh?” she couldn’t help but ask. “Well, now you have to tell me.”
“Can’t.”
“Can’t or won’t.”
“Can’t. It needs to come true.”
Laughing, she rolled her eyes, not at all hating how silly he was being.
And when she saw a shooting star herself, well, she figured it didn’t hurt to follow his suggestion.