“She used to do that as a kid,” Beckham said.
Reyna nodded. She knew.
After they’d given her the cure, she’d reverted to an almost childlike state. No longer a military leader or a powerful vampire, she retreated into herself and became the thing she had been before her mind had been shattered.
“Are you ready to go in?”
“Can I talk to you first?”
She arched an eyebrow but nodded. “Why do you look upset?”
“I’m not sure how you’ll react.”
“Should I be worried?”
He shook his head, glanced down, and then spit it out. “I want to take the cure.”
“You do?” she asked, wide-eyed with surprise. “You want to be a human again?”
“Yes.”
“Why? I thought…you wanted to be a vampire.”
He considered. “I wanted it at one time. But I am no longer the man who wanted it.”
“Are you sure?”
“Reyna, I want to spend this lifetime with you. I want to spend it as we should have it. You and I, married with children and growing old together.”
Reyna’s heart melted. “Really?”
“There is nothing I want more than to be with you.”
“What about the company?”
He shrugged. “We’ll figure it out. I can run it as a human as much as a vampire. You have been doing just as good a job.”
“Okay,” Reyna said in shock. “I can’t believe this is happening.”
“Say you want this lifetime with me,” he whispered against her lips.
“I want everything with you.”
Beckham kissed her once more and then opened the door to his sister’s room.
The cure was an opportunity.
A new adventure.
Not just for the vampires who had been turned against their will, but the ones who had walked into the darkness willingly. She would be there when he stepped back into the light. And every day after that.
They would weather this as they had done everything else…
Together.