A Spark in the Ash: Parallel Verse Guardians - Book Three by Keary Taylor

Author:Keary Taylor [Taylor, Keary]
Language: eng
Format: epub

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"Are you sure about this?" I ask again for the fifteenth time.

Jaxon settles back into the chair, holding his left arm up on the prop at his side. "Are you trying to back out of this?" he asks.

"Yes!" I say, still slightly shocked and horrified. "You simply put a ring on my finger, and now you're going to permanently mark your body? Over something that is just for show for your family?"

Jaxon reaches over and takes my left hand. "Serena, this isn't just for show. You're it for me."

So I swallow once, and I nod.

This is so crazy. Everything is moving along at rocket speed. I can hardly keep up. But this man right here is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

The big burly man in all black rolls over to Jaxon on his chair and picks up the buzzing piece of equipment.

He puts it to Jaxon's ring finger and begins.

Thirty minutes later, Jaxon walks out of there with a ring of black smoke tattooed around his wedding ring finger.

And it's just one more way that the two of us are fused together for forever.

It's one thousand percent perfect.

Hand in hand, I walk with my soulmate down the hall, to the elevators.

Innocuously, I see Azrael leaning against a wall. At the elevators, I see Sybil looking through her phone, and she glances up just once when Jaxon presses the button to call the elevator.

Twenty seconds later, it opens up, and we step into the empty lift.

I look down at Jaxon’s tattooed finger again. I grab his wrist and lift his hand, resting it on my chest, so he can feel my heart beating.

The look in his eyes deepens as we rise up through the casino. He brings his other hand up, lacing his fingers back into my hair. He steps forward, forcing me a step back, until my back hits the glass wall.

His lips take possession of mine with absolute claiming. His teeth bite my lower lip as they part.

My hands wrap around his waist, pulling him closer to me. Every bit of space between our bodies disappears, and I let out a moan as his body presses into mine, pushing me harder against the glass.

And I think about it then. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if this was real. If Jaxon really had asked me a four-word question before he slid this ring onto my finger.

Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if the darkling gatekeeper never made it to the gate and it never opened.

Maybe we could just…go, and find the place where we wanted to begin building our lives together.

Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if we just stayed in this elevator, like this, for the rest of our lives.

But I gasp for air when the elevator slows and then dings as it opens on the fifteenth floor.

“Whoa, shit,” someone says in shock as Jaxon and I step away from each other. I look over and see a blonde woman standing there, diverting her eyes.

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