AESIR
Coward, that was what Lani called me yesterday. What she had called me six days ago. And she wasn’t wrong. I was a coward in everything that had to do with her.
I read her message yesterday, and despite knowing the reaction she had expected from me, I had held back from knocking on her door because it wouldn’t have been right.
My head was still a mess of what-ifs, and all my fears were coming back to eat me alive. It wasn’t a matter of if I wanted Lani in my life; I wanted her romantically and in all the ways that mattered. If it were that simple, the answer would’ve been yes.
Goddess knows I have never wanted anything more in my life, but I was sensible enough to pause and factor in everything that could go wrong. Yeger wanted me to go all in with Lani. He wanted our mate, and I
