She grins. “Perfect.”
I grin back between sultry kisses. “Just like you.”
She kisses me back, then throws her arms around both Grey and Apollo and pulls them in for a kiss too, and we share her like she always wanted.
“I love you all,” she murmurs. “You really caught me.”
Apollo chuckles. “You’ll never outrun the three of us.”
She looks at Mavis’s grave and sighs. “Sorry you had to see that, Mav.”
We all burst out into laughter.
“Can we stay like this, together?” she asks.
I grip her chin and force her to look at me. “Baby, we’ll stay with you forever, whether you like it or not.”
She smiles and leans in against all of our foreheads. “Deal.”
EPILOGUE
Aspen
Weekslater
Levi approachesthe ledge from which we all once jumped the night Mavis died, and places the bouquet of black roses he brought on the ground where we all lost her.
“I hope you found some spirit friends to haunt us,” he says, smiling briefly.
My mom wipes away her tears with her sleeve, and my dad pulls her in for a hug.
Felix nearly crushes his own fingers in the palm of his hand, blood trickling down his skin. I pluck a single flower from my bouquet and hand it to him. “Give this to her.”
He stares at me for a moment, then homes in on the flower.
“Go on,” I urge him.
Finally, he lets go of his pent-up rage and approaches the ledge where we last saw her alive.
He kneels and places it down on the ground, then says something none of us can hear, but I know he’s speaking to his daughter, however far away she may be.
Alistair places down his bouquet too, and Silas snatches a flower from mine to place down something too.
Not everyone brought something, and I don’t blame them.
The very thought of having to buy flowers for a deceased family member is too much for some to bear, even for my disheveled, unhinged family.
They may be violent and vicious, but they are family.
And families hurt together.
Lana and Kai go next, placing their giant bouquets at the ledge, after which all their kids follow with cards, flowers, and candles. Even Apollo’s family showed up to the wake.
“I’ll miss you,” Heath says, as he loses his balance and falls to his knees, crying like crazy. “You were my best friend.”
Ivy hurries to his side along with Max, and they both console him.
My mother approaches Heath and places her hand on his shoulder, squeezing softly before she sets down her flowers as well. “We all miss her.”
