Sexting With A Vampire
Chapter 145

Nora

Leo is scratching the back of his neck inside the kitchen. He looks torn and uncomfortable after I've told him about my dream.

But while Leo looked curious in the beginning, he doesn't anymore. My mate is now the perfect picture of how I'm feeling on the inside: sad, broken, and lost.

Taking a deep breath, Leo forces out words. "So Lily is our enemy, but without her on our side, there is no other way to close the portals except for me giving up my life?"

I give Leo a small nod, and my heart clenches.

The vision of him dying and knowing the only way to save him is to somehow make up with my sister before she cut her arm, well... It's making all kinds of emotions swell inside my chest: sadness, pain, grief, anger, and even fear.

I'm so confused and at a loss. I finally have the man of my dreams, but I've discovered this future isn't the right one.

At least not for me and Let to get a happy ending, but changing the past might lead to the future changing too.

I'm so disorganized.

What am I supposed to do?!

"I have to go back to the past... I don't want you to die... I won't let it happen..." I tell Leo with my head down, eyes focusing on the floor. There is a jarring feeling in my heart.

Blake is also inside the kitchen. He looks up from the table with a small smile. The fairy prince is in his tiny form and chewing on an apple piece, and I feel so guilty meeting his eyes.

I know Blake has a date planned with Erike later, but if I time-travel, that might all change...

"Then... What is the plan, partner?" Blake asks me.

"Well..." I take a deep breath. "I hate Lily for what she will do and has already done, but to fix all of this... I must go back and improve our relationship and become friends with her." Blake attempts a smile. "Hey, that doesn't sound too bad... Can't you just go back a few weeks and make friends with her?"

"No, I have no clue where I will be taken if I use my powers or how many years into the past I will travel."

Leo blinks at me. "You can't choose?"

I shake my head, on the verge of tears. "After talking with my mom on the phone, she said I have to think of a feeling and what I want to do. In this case, I wish to return to a time when there was still a chance to save my relationship with Lily. My powers will do the rest, and there is no telling where I will wind up. I'm terrified."

Leo's eyes meet mine. "Which means you might go back to when Lily and I bullied you..."

"Probably, but... I switched schools, so I might have to switch back and somehow become friends with you both."

"That sounds tough," Leo says and places his hand over his chest as if his heart might be hurting. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Yes... I don't want you to die Leo..."

"Okay..." His eyes shine with tears. "I know how stupid this will sound, but... It feels like I'm losing you, you know? If you go back in time, I realize it's my past self you will meet-me, but... Damn, it's confusing."

Blake peers up at Leo. "Don't worry. The other Leo is still you, which means you could say something right now that might help Nora make friends with the past you."

Leo breathes a laugh and tilts his head. He looks so beautiful when he hands me a warm smile. "The past me is a stupid a*****e, and winning his heart might be downright impossible... I needed past you to talk with me to marry you... She hoped to change the future by mating us together early. But it seems pushing us together had made Lily evil or something. I'm not sure what is going on."

"That sounds about right," Leo shrugs. "The future is constantly changing, and if the future Nora hasn't met you again, then we can only assume that things are still shitty... She isn't here to stop us from doing this, so... I say go ahead?"

The guilt explodes with me then. "But going back in time might change everything, Blake! You came into this world because my sister opened the portal, right?"

"Yeah, but I come and go... Sometimes random portals, tiny ones that powerful demons can't enter, open, and I slink through them, only to travel back home when I get bored of the human realm."

"Yeah... But-" I hesitate. The words are on my tongue, and Blake looks at me expectantly, seeming to know what I will say.

"You're worried that I won't meet Erika?"

I don't dare to meet his eyes. "Yes..."

Sadness washes over Leo's features. My mate feels guilty too, but Blake doesn't look sad when he rises to his full height. He walks over to my hand and taps me on my knuckle.

His smile is kind. "I will go with you. That way, I will ensure myself of meeting Erika."

I blink in surprise. "How?"

A grin takes his lips. "I will merge with you, and you will time travel with me inside of you."

Leo snorts. "That sounds so dirty..."

I crack up as well. "Oh-my-god, it does!"

Blake glances between us, sighing before muttering. "The two of you have your freaking heads in the gutter! I obviously didn't mean it in a dirty way at all!"

"I know, and you better not," Leo focuses his eyes on the tiny fairy, giving him a glimpse of an evil smile. "You put a hand on my mate, and you're a dead fairy."

Blake makes a "Pssh!" sound and smiles. "No offense, but Erika is the person I will win over early in this other realm. Maybe a younger version of her won't reject me?"

I hand him a smile. "Maybe? But I still feel guilty. She did agree to go out with you in this realm."

"Yes, but..." Blake sighs, and then a tiny smile curves his lips. "I'm saving my mate's cousin by going back in time, no? Surely that will give me good karma, and I have all the time in the world to win her over in the other timeline." Without thinking, I pick Blake up from the table and squeeze him like a teddy bear. He yelps in surprise but softens once I stroke his back and fully embrace him. "You're such a good person, Blake..."

"Well..." Blake sighs. "You guys are like my only friends, and what don't you do for everlasting friendship?"

Leo laughs. He has warmed up to the fairy and doesn't even seem jealous that I'm cuddling with Blake.

Instead, Leo winks at Blake. "Good luck building the same kind of friendship with the younger version of me."

"You and I will become best friends. I can promise you that already." Blake grins confidently, showing his teeth and everything.

I exchange a smile with them both. "I feel better that we are onboard the same plan, but I'm still nervous..."

"I can understand that," Leo says, furrowing his eyebrows. "How are you going to activate your power?"

Insecurity hits me, and I nervously laugh. "Well, Rebecca and my mom told me I must put my life in danger... So later this evening, my dad, Raphael, will shoot me with lightning."

Leo's eyes almost bug out of their sockets, and he shakes his head with a weirded-out look. "Dude, I swear to God you have the weirdest family of werewolves ever..."

I laugh. "I do, but... I finally understand that they got my back-they always did. I couldn't see it before, but I do it now. My mom and dads and brother love me."

"I love you too, Nora. So, so much. And I always had an unrequited crush on you," Leo whispers. "Remember that when you go back in time. It will help you, I'm sure... F**k... I can't believe you're doing this to... To save my life..." Our eyes meet, and I shudder, not breaking our stare.

Leo is a magnificent male, close to seven feet tall and all alpha. With his tousled mix of brown and blond hair, emerald eyes, and panty-dropper smile, he is the kind of man that makes you stop and blink.

And I love him with all of my heart. That's why going back in time will be so terrifyingly scary because his embrace will no longer be there. It breaks me, thinking like that.

"I love you too," I whisper in a needing voice. My hands are itching to touch Leo, but I know any form of affection will only make this more complicated and a hundred times more painful. Therefore, I whisper at him in a longing tone. "I will find you again. I promise."