CHAPTER 46
LUCKY
“I need to go in there,” I said. The Gods were surrounding me in the suite next door as we all gathered around to watch Slade and Nicholai on the surveillance cameras Riot had installed earlier in my room.
“You can’t,” Ziggy said. “Let Slade do his job.”
“I have to confront him,” I said, growing increasingly inpatient now that he was trapped in the room. There was no way Nicholai was going to escape this situation now.
We had him right where we wanted him, but I wanted more.
I wanted revenge.
And I wanted it delivered by my hands.
And right now, in this moment, I couldn’t think of anything I’d ever wanted more.
“I’m going in,” I said, standing up and heading for the door. Ziggy grabbed my arm, spinning me around to face him.
“You can’t.”
I twisted from his grip and walked to the door, stepping out into the hallway. He followed me, stopping me again as soon as the door closed behind us, leaving us alone in the hallway.
“You have to wait, Lucky!” he insisted.
“I’m not waiting!” I cried, growing increasingly frustrated. “Don’t you realize what’s going on? This is my time. This is what I’ve been waiting for, Ziggy! I appreciate everything you’ve done for me, I really do, but now it’s time to let me go and let me face Nicholai. He’s tortured me for so long. It’s time I get payback.”
“You’re getting payback. Right at this very minute! Slade is taking care of it, you have to trust us.”
“You can’t stop me!”
“Yes, I can and I will, Lucky! I’m not letting you go in there!”
“Why do you even fucking care?” I shouted. He looked as if I’d slapped him, his eyes wide with shock.
“Why do I care, Lucky? Is that a real question?” he asked, a storm brewing in his fiery eyes. “I care because I fucking love you, Lucky! I care because you’re all I can think about, ever since that night in Seattle. Since I laid that kiss on you, I knew you were exactly what I’d been waiting for my whole damned life, without even knowing! I didn’t expect any of this. You’re so far out of my league it’s fucking ridiculous. I mean, really, Lucky, look at us! And yet, every time I hold you, it’s like everything’s right in the world. And I don’t know why I feel that way. I don’t know why any of this shit happened. But here we are. Together. And all I know is together, we make something right, something good. And I don’t ever want it to end.”
I stared up at him with tears in my eyes.
“I love you, too, Ziggy,” I whispered.
He leaned down, his mouth capturing mine in a deep, passionate kiss, his lips like fire against mine, burning through my skin and setting my soul on fire for this man.
“You’re everything I ever wanted. And nothing will ever change that,” I whispered.
I kissed him again before tearing myself away and running down the hallway towards a whole lifetime of unfinished business.