The Mate Mistake(The Woolven Secret 3)(58)

“Where is my father?”

“He and David are working in his laboratory.”

“They’ve been spending a lot of time together,” she said.

“I think it’s a good thing,” Parker said.

“I’m sure it is.”

Blake closed the door behind him.

“So you think maybe we should get started on that healing? I’m ready for the fairytale, Parker. You basically promised me happy ever after, and I want it. I’m calling in your chips.”

“True Vegas style, eh?”

“Yeah. And in true Vegas style, if you back out now…”

“You’ll break my legs?” he offered.

“Something.”

He flinched. “Can’t have that.”

She cupped his face and the energy began to flow freely between them. She could feel it now, the way her power filled him up. The way his essence did the same for her. “No, we definitely can’t.”

“But you know what we can have?”

“You better say an ending better than a fairytale. You better say it doesn’t have to end.”

“That’s the problem with being mated to such a beautiful, powerful, creature.”

“What’s that?”

“You take all my best lines.” He kissed her knuckles. “You take all my best everything, because that’s all I ever want to give you. Always. Forever.”

She bent her face down close to his, her lips barely touching his mouth.

“Wait, so every time I injure myself, I’ll get sex?”

Belle didn’t want to laugh, but she did anyway. “No. Maybe you shouldn’t get it now. I wouldn’t want to condition you to think dumbassery is a rewardable thing.”

“Um, excuse me. Bravery.”

“Dumbassery.” She said while kissing him.

He flipped her on her back and cringed as another version of himself appeared next to them. “Damn it, that hurts.”

“See, dumbassery.”

The second Parker moved in behind her. “We say we should get this reward no matter what.”

“Parker!”

“What?” they both answered. “You said you wanted—”

“Maybe it’ll be double the healing power. But look, this isn’t going to be an every night thing.”

“Just weekends,” second Parker said.

“Holidays,” she said. “Maybe just your birthday.”

“Maybe just your birthday,” Parker said.

He was getting stronger by the second as was her surety that this was everything she never knew she could have. Everything she’d fight to her last breath to keep.

Monsters could have happy ever afters, too.