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“For one thing, you’re not exactly non-planeswalkers. You boys
are just as much mine as your father’s. Remember that,” Adrianna
said, giving them all a stern look before it dissolved into a smile.
“And for another thing, you’re in love. If you can take someone into
your soul, surrender yourself to another person the way I know you
boys have for your mates, then you have what it takes to cross a
planesgate. It’s an act of faith, pure and simple, in what fate has
planned for you. Which I assume you boys have now.” She clasped
Alex’s shoulder and gave it a squeeze. “Am I right?”
Alex nodded. “I think so.” He glanced at his brothers. For a long
time, his younger brothers had struggled with that faith, but now,
standing alongside their mates, nodding their heads as confidently as
he had, he could tell they were going to be okay.
Jasper smiled, breathing out a shaky breath. “Okay. Last one off
the tall, scary cliff’s a rotten egg.”
“Hold on a sec,” Alex said. He turned to Jacob, pulling him into
his arms. “Come here.”
Taking his mate’s face in his hands, he kissed him, locking their
lips in a long, slow kiss and lapping at his tongue until he heard
Jacob’s inward sigh and his mate practically collapsed against his
chest. As he did, all his love and his mate’s seemed to swirl between
them, swelling until it seemed so infinite it might even fill the vast
and terrifying chasm below the cliff. When Alex pulled away, his
mate was smiling dreamily and his brothers were trying to find a spot
in the distance to nonchalantly stare at.
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“Wow,” Jacob breathed, practically panting against him. “You
know, just because we’re about to jump into the abyss together
doesn’t mean you’re never going to get the chance to kiss me again.”
“I know. That was just because I love you.”
“I love you, too,” Jacob said, smiling wider. Alex wouldn’t have
thought it was possible, but there it was. “Now are you ready for
this?”
“Yeah,” Alex said. He could sense something, strong and deep
and comforting, urging him toward the planesgate, and he trusted it as
much as he trusted Jacob. If he had to, he’d give his life to that all-
encompassing pull. “I am.”
He glanced around him to the family he loved so much, took his
mate’s hand and a deep breath, and jumped into the vast spaces
below.
And fate, as always, took care of the rest.
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“Is it still Saturday?” Danny asked, glancing up at the sun that had
finally begun to set in the sky.
Mitchell smiled at his youngest son’s mate. Even though it had
happened decades ago, he could still remember the first day he and
Adrianna had spent on Earth after being in the supernatural realm for
so long. The day had passed so damn quickly that he’d thought he
was hallucinating when the sky darkened and he could see the moon
shining above him. “Get used to it, kiddo,” he said, grinning at
Danny. “You’re going to be eighteen for a very long time.”
“Lucky bastard,” Jasper quipped, drawing a warning glare from
Ben and an eye roll from Danny.
“Easy for you to say,” Danny muttered, glancing at Lars. “I’m
never going to get that beer, am I?”
Jacob looked up at Danny with amusement. “You do know the
drinking age on Morgana is like sixteen, right?”
“Awesome,” Danny breathed. “I think I like it here already.”
“Well, that’s good,” Alex cut in, “because I don’t think I could
handle making that trip across the planesgate again.”
A chorus of nods and sympathetic moans met Alex’s statement,
and Mitchell exchanged a knowing smile with Adrianna. Their sons
and their mates weren’t as used to planeswalking as they were.
Consequently, the journey back to Morgana, which had dropped them
all onto the hard ground with a chorus of thuds and less-than-graceful
face-plants, had been a little hard on their novice bodies.
Adrianna glanced back up at the setting sun. “It is getting late,
though,” she said. “We should probably get out of vampire territory.”
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Alex nodded solemnly. “I’ll keep a lookout here. You guys go
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