Stay by Alyssa Rose Ivy

Author:Alyssa Rose Ivy [Ivy, Alyssa Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Toby

I hadn’t moved. Well aside from getting up to relieve myself once, I hadn’t moved off the rocks since Hailey left. I had no clue how long Casey was going to be gone, but since there was a possibility she’d be back, or even more importantly that she’d need me, I wasn’t going far.

The sun had set completely, leaving me under the cover of darkness. I didn’t mind the dark. My night vision was near perfect, and there was a calm that only the night could bring. I yearned to fly, to stretch my wings, but doing that too close to the island might get us all in trouble. Casey was facing the bears alone, the least I could do was sit and wait patiently.

“You love her, don’t you?” Daria took a seat next to me on the rock. She and her brother had returned not long after Casey had left, but they’d wandered off almost immediately.

“Yes.” There was no reason to hesitate with that answer.

“That’s sweet.”

“I don’t know if it’s sweet, but it’s real.”

“Isn’t sweet a good thing?” She looked up at me through her bright emerald eyes.

“Yes, but real is better. Sweet can be fake too.”

“She’s going to be okay.”

“You can’t know that.” I was too nervous to worry about displaying false confidence. Evidently Casey’s mother had trusted this person. I figured I could be at least a little bit honest with her.

“What can we know?” She brushed her shoulder against mine. “Does anyone really know anything?”

“I know I love her.”

“Ok. Arguably we know deep emotions, but do we ever really know what’s to come? Even those gifted with seeing the future can be wrong.”

“Because one small deviation changes everything.”

“Exactly.”

“I just need her to be okay. I finally found the one. The one girl who makes me feel like I can be a good man. The one girl that makes me feel like anything is possible. I can’t lose her.”

Daria tossed a tiny pebble into the lake. “That sounds very selfish.”

“Selfish?”

“Yeah.” She turned to me. “Are you listening to yourself? Each of those statements was about what she makes you feel. How about who she is?”

I sighed. “She’s amazing.”

“Why?”

“Because she’s so strong, beautiful, smart, and unique.” Just talking about Casey had my heart beating faster.

“That’s more like it.”

“Are you trying to distract me?”

“Maybe. Do you need a distraction?” She leaned in.

“Not if it involves flirting or anything like that.”

She laughed. “I know. I already told you I can tell you love her.”

“And love is enough to stop you? I thought nymphs couldn’t control that side of them?”

“And I thought all Pterons were arrogant jerks.”

I laughed. “Very true. Stereotypes are a dangerous thing.”

“They are.”

“I’m going to marry her. I’m going to have her as my wife and mate. I’m not accepting anything less.”

Daria smiled. “I know.”

“You do?”

“Yeah. It’s pretty obvious. You’re still sitting here, aren’t you?”

“Yes. I’ll sit here as long as I have to.”

“She’s lucky to have you.”

“I’m the lucky one.”

A groan from behind me had us both whirling around.

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