If He Had Been With Me Characters Novels & Stories

he said, sounding defeated. "Will you?" He looked at me, vulnerable. "Will you come with me?" I didn't even have to think about it. Of course, I would go with him.

And I was going to be th ere. But so did he. And I needed him as well. Whatever the future held, I wished to experience it with him by my side.

Chapter 71 I gave him a drink. He reluctantly took it from me, still wearing a frown. I searched for Myra in the crowd but it was a long shot. "I will come back. I'm going to search for Myra." He asked his brows in question. "Myra is the friend I came with." I got lost inside the crowd before he said another word. I was still looking for Myra, but a stranger came to my side wearing a wide smile.

His will to do better… Mine… Yeah, he was mine, as I was his. We both had a darkness in us, we both were different, yet we truly were made for one another. I know that many would feel angry that I was ok with him being involved in the Cartel, but I'm not perfect either… Maybe someday Leo would step away from that path, and when he did, I’d be the first to be proud of him and help him… but for now… I would be by his side, as his greatest supporter, because my mate was my entire world.

I hoped that her heart somehow stopped. “Would you like some coffee?” I asked, hating how pathetic I sounded. He gave me a stiff nod that said he wanted me to just get out of his site and get something better to do. I went to get the coffee anyway, plotting on everything to do when the stupid girl woke up. By the time I got to the hallway, he wasn't there. I peeped into Charlotte's ward. Just as expected, he was sitting beside her. His face was turned towards her even if he couldn't see. His expression made it seem like she was his world.

I breathed out, my voice soft. "Where are you?" he asked immediately, no unnecessary greeting. His tone was steady but sharp, every word clear and direct. "And who are you with?" "I’m… I’m near the main exit," I answered quickly, glancing sideways at Heza, who was walking close beside me, listening quietly. "With Heza. Just us… we ran into Kael a while ago, but we just left him."

I cautioned in a subtle way but instead he looked me in the eyes and gave me a word that sent ice down my spine. “He is here now, go be with him”. He walked off. This time he didn't stop even when I called his name. I let out a heavy sigh not of relief but a sigh that signifies how much trouble I was in with the only man that stood by me when I had no one.

And in that moment, I believed him. Because whatever waited beyond the doors — judgment, whispers, tests — none of it mattered. I had him. And he had me. Mate. Luna. His.

He was watching her with that patient expression, keys in his hand, not saying anything, not making it into a decision she had not already made. She left her door where it was. She followed him into his apartment and the door clicked shut behind them and the city hummed on outside and that was the end of their first day out in the world together — quiet and ordinary and one of the best days she had had in longer than she could remember. She did not manage that thought. She just let it be true. End of chapter 9

His reassuring and dependable presence comforted me and gave me strength. “Want me to go with you?” Hayden asked softly. His large hand stroked the back of my head lovingly and I pressed my face even closer against his chest. It might be easier for me to have Hayden there with me, so I slowly nodded my head. “Alright. Let’s go,” Hayden readily agreed to my choice.