Chapter 0193
Josie’s POV**
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Mason closes the bedroom door behind him, closing me in the room with him. His eyes seem to focus on anything but me as he gathers the courage to say whatever it is he wants to talk to me about.
“What’s wrong?” I ask, trying to encourage him to speak.
“Nothing. Everything,” he sighs.
“Okay, have I done something wrong?” I ask.
“No, of course not, I have,” he admits and dread begins to build within me.
“What have you done?”
“Everything. When it comes to you I have done everything wrong, from the very start,” he lowers his gaze to the floor and my heart aches for him.
“No, you haven’t,” I step up to him and place a hand on his cheek, encouraging him to look at me, when his eyes meet mine I see his pain and regret shining through, “We may not have been perfect but I wouldn’t change a single thing about us. Things would have been different if we had and we might not have made it this far. Everything happened exactly how it was supposed to,” I smile at him.
Mason closes his eyes for a moment and brings his hand up to wrap around my wrist, he guides my hand to his mouth and kisses my palm before opening his eyes again.
“I don’t deserve you,” he whispers, his voice thick with emotion.
“Yes, you do. We deserve each other. I love you, Mason,” I tell him.
“I’m the last person you should give your love to, and if I was a good man I’d tell you to run from me, but when it comes to you I’m selfish and will take everything you have to give,” he breathes.
“Good, because I have a lot to give,” I smile.
“There are some things I want to fix, though,” he says and straightens up. “Hi, I’m Mason Marshall,” he holds out a hand to shake. I look down at his offered hand and grin before I take it in my own and shake it.
“Hi, Mason, I’m Josie Banks, it’s nice to meet you,” I laugh
Mason wraps his arms around me and kisses me like it’s our first, he’s tender and shy and I realise he’s trying to recreate all our firsts. I love him even more for that, not that I’d want to forget a single second of my time with him, the good, the bad, and the ugly. It all mattered to me, it’s all a part of our story.
“We should probably wait until your friend leaves before I fix the next part,” he smirks, his eyes glancing towards the bed.
“That’s probably a good idea, but I’m already looking forward to it,” I breathe as desire pools in my core.
“Hey, enough of that!” Theo shouts from the other room. “Seriously though, we don’t need awkward boners whilst we are with your friend,” he adds in the mind link and I giggle.
“Sorry,” I respond to him.
We should get back to the others,” Mason says with a resigned sigh.
“Later then?” I ask.
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“Later,” he nods before giving me one more kiss, a kiss so passionate that it paints a sexual picture in my mind. We join the others in the kitchen and Deacon greets me with a smile as he holds out a plate of cubed cheese.
“I don’t think I’ve told you enough how much I love you,” smile at him.
“I love you too, troublemaker,” he leans down and kisses my cheek, “I need to meet with a few people and pick up the tech, I’ll be back as soon as I can,”
“Be safe, if you need us then call,” I tell him before he leaves.
“Okay, team, what’s next? Tell me the battle plan,” Freya says as she sips her coffee.
We fill her in on our strategy to try and capture Cornellus. We just need to find a way to get to him.
“I might be able to help with that,” she grins and pulls out her phone to show us an announcement, “He is holding a meet and greet two days from now. The location will only be announced on the day but we can assume he’ll have security, if we can find a way around them then you can get to him,”
“Two days? If we can pull this off we should be home and free to live our lives by the end of the week,” Luke says excitedly.
“But how are we going to get to him?” I ask
“With an army,” Axel says.
“I think they might notice us arriving if we bring an army,” Theo hums.
“It doesn’t matter, they’ll notice us whether we bring an army or not,” Mason sighs.
“So what? We just mass port in? They’ll probably be prepared for that,” I say.
“They’ll most likely have a shield up.” Axe adds.
“Not likely, shields are very rare, and the chances of them having more than one are very slim. Clarrisa was likely their only one and we don’t have to worry about her anymore. Unless there is a chance she survived?” Luke raises his brow at me.
“No,” I shake my head, “they were both dead, I made sure of it,” I glance towards Mason and his fists are clenched.
“Okay, I don’t understand half of what you said but let’s just pretend I did. So two days from now you will bring an army, kick Cornelius back to his own realm and everything will go back to normal?” Freya asks hopefully.
“You make it sound so simple but yes, although there will be a new normal, Cornelius has outed us, we can’t take
that back but we can work out a peaceful solution to coexisting,” Luke nodsnelius has outed us, we can’t take
“We need to run this by Deacon and then take it to the miltary. We will need their input on the planning but I think it’s doable,” Axel says.
“Is anyone else excited about this?” Theo grins and we all nod. Maybe we really are suited to this life. Or maybe it’s just the prospect of all this being over for good.
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