Summer Breeze Kisses - Addison Moore Page 0,441

stop loving you either. You think we’ll make it this time?” I wince as I ask. At this point the question feels rhetorical.

He gives a solemn nod. “We will. We have to. I can’t breathe without you. You’re the only means of survival for me.” He gives my hips a quick pinch. “Plus, we’ll have cute kids.”

“Kids?” I squeak with a laugh—this is so not like me. It’s almost alarming, but I’ve always appreciated the way Axel was able to pull me from my shell. “As in human children?”

“Yes, I assure you they’re the very best kind, and I hear they’re fun to make.”

“Making babies.” I shake my head in wonder at this beautiful man. “Well, Strudel is getting up there in age. I was thinking he should probably have a buddy.”

He grimaces, and even in that he looks stunningly handsome. Axel’s classically good looks never seem to fail him. “I might keep our newborn away from the dog for a bit. But yes, I very much think Strudel needs a brother or a sister.”

My heart warms when he references Strudel as a member of the family. “You know the way to my heart, don’t you?”

“I’d like to think so.” His Adam’s apple rises and falls as if the moment just grew serious. “You are my heart, Lex.” He leans in and brushes my lips with his before settling into something deeper, darker as we fall into one another, rewriting history at the Witch’s Cauldron, wiping away the grime from the past, making the present sparkle and shine with our newfound love for one another.

Axel eases off my skirt, my shirt. He strips down to his boxers, and we carefully dip down into the heated waters as the steam rises around us, secluding us from the rest of the world. Above us the evergreens arch into the night sky. A shooting star leaves a spray of magic in its wake, and we marvel at the sight.

“It’s pure magic. It’s a sign.” I float over his lap, with my wrists locked around his neck.

“It’s Emilia.” His breath cools my neck. “She’s sending her love—her approval. When we broke up, she told me you were a shooting star, and I had gotten caught up in the stardust.”

My stomach bucks as I struggle to hold back tears. “And now you’re coming along for the ride.”

“Just try to get rid of me. I’m in it forever.”

I thread my fingers through the thick ropes of his hair as we get lost in one another’s eyes. “Forever. Thank you for that.”

We fall into a kiss that goes on exactly forever. Our hearts knit to one another under the stars, under Emilia’s supervision, under God’s. One thing is for certain—from here on out, neither of us would have to battle through this world alone.

Axel and I found our way back, and that magic is worth a million shooting stars.

Axel

At the end of the day Lex Ximena Maxfield is an old-fashioned girl, and at the end of the day the same can be said for me. That’s precisely why I’m doing two things.

I present her brother with the report I’ve printed out.

Marlin frowns into it, his go-to expression with me. I somehow coerced him to meet me at the coffee shop at the foot of my building. It’s not Hallowed Grounds, but it works for the purpose of our meeting.

“Ms. Cheryl Kazouski.” He shakes his head. “Quite a string of previous arrests. No felonies. What about her?”

“Just wanted to see if she had any outstanding warrants, anything that might make her go away.”

“You want her to go away?” He pumps out a dry smile and looks eerily like Lex in the process. It’s unnerving seeing her face lurking there in that of her brother’s who has a long-standing history of heavily disliking me. “Here’s what you do. Invite her to dinner and start in on a nice long conversation. That repels just about most women in your life—right? It worked with my sister. The only tragedy is it took a year.” He tosses the printout back to me.

“Funny.” I fold my hands, trying to buy some patience. Maybe this was a big mistake. “This woman has been harassing your sister for the better part of three months. The cops don’t really give a crap. I thought maybe you might.”

“What?” He snaps the page back toward him and glares at her image as if he were suddenly moved to murder. That’s the thing about Marlin. He loves his sisters.

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