Page 46 of Fallout
Henley
Parker takes me to the beach. Since neither of us packed a suit, we just wade in the water. Parker has his jeans rolled up to his knees and the skirt of my dress is short enough to not soak the bottom. Still, every once in a while a wave will crash a little higher and splash my skirt. I squeal as a wave splashes high.
Parker chuckles, his blue eyes lighting up with humor.
My heart swells as I realize that this is going to be our life now. We might be young, but I found the person I’m going to spend the rest of my life with. We’re going to be able to make memories like this together.
After playing around in the water for a while, a dragon shifter approaches us on the beach. I don’t recognize the young boy, but Parker does.
“Prince Evander.” Parker bows slightly.
“How am I supposed to address you?” Prince Evander asks. “Is it Alpha Parker?”
“Just Parker,” he explains. “I’m the heir, but I’m not alpha yet. Wolves aren’t that formal.”
Prince Evander nods thoughtfully. “Cool. Then you guys can just call me Evander.” He turns to me, his teal blue eyes lighting with curiosity. “You are the unknown supernatural?”
I chew on my bottom lip as I nod.
That’s me.
The mystery.
Ugg, I hate it.
“Dad is ready for you guys back at the house. I think he found something in this old book,” Evander nods toward the house.
I hesitate, not sure if I’m ready to know. Even though I know that Parker won’t send me away once we figure out what I am, the fear is still clinging to me. It’s still hard to accept that Parker isn’t going anywhere.
People don’t stick around. I’m too different—too scary. So I still can’t comprehend what Parker sees in me.
Parker explained the soulmate bond to me. He said it was like his soul could see into mine and they decided they couldn’t live without one another. It makes me wonder what his soul saw. I’m not worthy of having a mate bond and I’m not worthy of Parker.
Parker, seeing my hesitation, takes my hand in his. He gently squeezes my fingers and tugs me along after Evander.
Evander is not what I expected a dragon prince to be. I expected… more like the other prince we met earlier. But Evander is so chill. Even Parker, the future alpha of his pack, is super uptight at times. He worries about everything and seems to carry a heavy weight on his shoulders. But Evander doesn’t appear to have the same issue.
Evander glances back at me as we make our way up the stairs. I notice he does it a couple of times. It reminds me of when I first started hanging around Parker and his pack. Everybody was so curious about me.
“What can you do?” Evander asks, breaking the silence. “Like, what makes you supernatural?”
I tuck a strand of hair behind my ear. “Uh, I can read minds.”
He laughs so hard that he stops in the pathway in front of us. Parker and I nearly run into him. But when he realizes Parker and I are just staring at him, he stands up straighter.
“Wait, you’re not joking? You can read minds?” Evander asks.
I nod. “I can also teleport, come back from the dead, and I can fly.”
He raises an eyebrow. “How can you fly? Do you shift into a bird or something?”
I reveal my wings quicker than he can blink. Evander’s eyes bug out as he looks at the black feathered wings protruding from my back.
“Wow.” He keeps looking at my wings. “I’ve never known any supernatural that can fly other than dragon shifters and raven shifters. But even raven shifters are extremely rare.”
I hide my wings again so that we can fit through the pathway.
Evander starts walking again, but he abruptly turns back around to face us. “Wait, did you just say you can come back from the dead?”