She let her legs fall apart as Jay crawled back into the bed. He watched as she paused to study his features.
“Why is Onyx hiding from me?”
Jay sighed, “he is ashamed of both of us. As I said he is licking his wounds over his mistakes and contemplating all the ways he is going to make it up to you. Like our bride, he is taking some time to deliberate how to make sure you understand how important you are to him. He is barely speaking to me as well. He is angry I didn’t simply kill Fang, but this is because he is embarrassed. She was not the only one at fault and we could not kill her for her transgressions because we were as much at fault as she was.” He pulled her hand to his chest, “you feel him there. Do you not?”
“I feel his love and I feel his sorrow, but I miss seeing him through y
