Chapter 999 That Can Never Happen

Skye
After this, I can go back to Lunaria. I can continue on with my life and my research. I can pick up where I left off with Alex, and while sitting in a chair between my mother and Grammy Leona, watching Dad, who immediately picks me out of the crowd and gives me a withdrawn look that skitters up my spine and blooms into unease, I think about him. Alex. Not my grandparents. Not the slideshow of pictures being presented for close friends and family who gathered here today. Just him.
I wonder if we’ll have a chance to sip coffee in the morning together like the intimate picture of Maddy and Isaac, so young, with Maddy pregnant with my grandpa and great-uncle Ryan, her hand resting on her belly. But of course, we won’t. Alex doesn’t do coffee because he’s a vampire and drinks blood, and also when we had sex, he made it sound like–