AMELIA’S P.O.V

I felt like an absolute bitch for what I had said to Kaden. I should never have thrown my past with Blake in his face like that. I was just so upset. I didn’t know how to handle everything that had been thrown in front of me. It wasn’t as if I wanted Blake, hell, I wanted to break our bond. I just wasn’t thinking and I wanted him to feel a fraction of what I had felt when he was with Natasha. I wanted him to hurt the way I did and that was absolute bullshit.


I sat in my room since he dropped me off and I hadn’t walked out since then. I heard a knock on my door and it creaked open to reveal Clara. I glanced over at her before turning away and facing the wall. I had messed up badly.

“Are you alright?” she asked and all I did was shrug. “Talk to me, Amelia.”

“I said something very stupid to Kaden. I didn’t mean, I was just mad, I don’t understand what is happened. I just wish we could go back to normal, before all of this happened.”


“But you can’t,” she finished for me and I nodded. “Maybe you don’t have to go back. Who you are now is as a result of what you went through and sure, the things that happened were shit but you got to be this strong and amazing woman because of it. You decide what breaks you and your relationshio- not Natasha and not anyone else.”

“I can’t stay in that house. It has too many memories of her.”


“I know.”

“But I miss him.”

“I know,” she sighed before reaching out for my phone. She inputed something before handing it over to me. I saw that she had put some co-ordinates into my map.

“What is this?’

“Follow it, you’ll find Kaden there.”

“Where is that? What is he doing there?”

She just gave me a knowing smile and shrugged before walking out of my room.

I stared at the numbers on my scree. It was half an hour’s drive from here. I could have sat in bed and just kept the hollow feeling of missing him in my chest but I found myself rushing to my feet and I ran out of the house. I didn’t even get the chance to say goodbye to Pamela or Devin. I just rushed into my car and followed the instructions.

It was a rather simple drive and during the last few minutes, it struck me just how quiet the roads were. Wherever Clara had led me, it was in the middle of a bunch of trees. Still, I knew she wouldn’t hurt me so I followed the map until I parked in the middle of a massive two story house. It was beautiful with a garden in front and vines going up the large gate. Said gate was wide open and I drove in.

Kaden was standing in front of the house and he turned around in shock when he noticed my car. We stared at each other through the car, neither of us saying a word. We stood like that until he broke the spell by looking away first.

I got out of the car and made my way over to him but he had his back to me. “Kaden-”

“You should go back home, Amelia, it is late and you shouldn’t be out by this time.”

“Aren’t you going to tell me what this is or why I was led here?”

“I’m assuming Clara or Caleb had something to do with this,” he drawled. “It was a mistake leading you here. You should go.”

I stared at him for a minute before scoffing and turning on my heels. I had only taken to steps when he reached out for me and wrapped his hand around my bicep.

“Stop,” he whispered, his voice sounded almost broken. “I didn’t mean that, I just- what are you doing here?”

“I miss you,” I admitted and he stilled. “A lot has happened and I know it is going to take a shit ton of time to get through it but we can get through it together.”

“Amelia-”

“I should be making you grovel and beg on your knees but-” my words died on my throat when Kaden fell to his knees instantly. There was no hesitation on his part, he just did it. “What are you doing?”

“Isn’t it obvious? I am begging on my knees. If that will make you coming here justified then fuck, I will beg on my knees every fucking day if I have to because I miss you too. I miss your scent in my house, I miss seeing you in our bed, I miss waking up to you next to me. I miss your shit in my bathroom and I miss being able to come home and know that you are there waiting for me because anything else is lonely as fuck and I can’t do that.”

My eyes were watering. He rose and wiped my tears away before placing a gentle kiss on each cheek. It only made the tears fall faster. A chill wind blew and goosebumps rose on my skin. Kaden didn’t even say a word as he pulled his jacket off and slipped it over my shoulders.

“I miss you, Amelia, come home with me.”

“You don’t know how much I want to but I can’t stay in that house. It reminds me so much of her-”

“Then don’t,” he said simply and my brows furrowed in confusion until he gestured to the house behind us. “I got this before she even came into the picture. I just didn’t know how to show it to you. How was I to tell you that I was already planning every minute of our future together without making you run for the hills?”

I stared up at the house. “This is ours?”

He nodded. “I’ve been trying to finish up the renovations. All that’s left is to furnish it, I wanted you to do that but I didn’t know if you wanted to have anything to do with me after-”

I cut him off with a kiss. It was probably forward and I should have made him beg more but I didn’t care. What use was there in making us both suffer when all we wanted was each other? I wrapped my arms around his neck and it took him a second but he kissed me back. His hands settled on my waist as he pulled me impossibly closer.

We pulled back only to catch our breaths and he rested his forehead against mine. He said nothing and when I pulled back, I could feel his fear down our bond, fear that I would turn away and leave.

“Why don’t you show me the inside?”