Divine (50 page)

I looked back at him,
his short stubble perfectly spread along his masculine jaw, looking
at me with one of his many intense stares that I knew so well. “Why
is that?” I asked hesitantly, sensing that he was holding
something back.

He breathed out a sigh
and looked over to the large overhang of the cliff. “I haven't
been in the ocean since what had happened at the cove, you know, with
all the fish.”

“
Yeah, I know.”

“
But,” he
continued softly, “when I got in the water after you took Fox
away, I could tell that Fred was alive. Once I knew where you were, I
knew that I needed to take care of something before I got to you, so
I sent her ahead to meet you, to let you know that I was coming for
you.”

My eyebrows knitted
together as I looked up at his profile; I couldn't figure out what he
was trying to tell me. “What do you mean?” I gently urged
him. “What did you have to take care of before coming to get
me?”

He looked away from the
cliff and met my eyes once again. “I took care of Fox . . .”

“
What does that
mean exactly,” I questioned him with a blank stare.

His yellow eyes shifted
around as he cleared his throat. “Well, I found his body in the
water and I hid it somewhere where no one will ever find it.”

“
You did?”
I sputtered out, my mouth dropping open in disbelief.

“
Well, yeah,”
he shrugged. “I told you that I would always protect you.
Hiding Fox is part of that protection.”

“
But what I did
was so wrong.”

He brought the warmth
of his strong hands to rest on my shoulders. “Summer, you had
to do what you did to protect yourself from him.
And
you saved
my life. If you didn't take Fox away when you did then he would have
killed me.”

“
No,” I
quickly disagreed. “You would have been able to fight him off.
You're strong enough . . .”

“
But I wasn't.”
His eyes softened as he smiled down at me with gratefulness. “I
am
strong, but I wasn't able to handle the electricity that he
was sending through my body. I got tired, and you helped me.”

I smiled weakly back at
him as I leaned my head forward against the firmness of his chest.
His arms wrapped around me in a tight hug and I indulged in his
embrace, feeling completely in love with the man who I knew would
always protect me.

A gentle breeze circled
around us and I closed my eyes and breathed in the warm tropical air.
I tried to relax for a minute but it was useless: the darkness of my
eyelids replayed the moment when Fox had plummeted over the side of
the cliff. I worked hard to send the image of his wide-eyed, bloody
face away but I couldn't; it was a nightmare that I knew would always
stay with me.

I let out a
whimper-filled sigh and squeezed my arms more tightly around Jonah.
“I can't believe I did that,” I uttered about my grisly
thought.

“
Yeah,” he
agreed, “I can't believe you did that either.”

I pulled my head back
with a sob and looked up at him. “I'm so sorry, Jonah, I can't
believe that what I did killed Fox.”

His face lit up with
the warm glow of his smile. “I wasn't talking about that,”
he said with a soothing softness.

“
What do you
mean? You said you couldn't believe that I did that either.”

“
I know. But what
I meant was, I can't believe that you teleported. I'm so proud of
you.”

His kind praise made me
smile. Jonah had always been my biggest supporter, and he always
would be. We found ourselves in a horrible situation and did things
that we didn't want to do, but we banded together and helped each
other through it, coming out stronger than we were before.

As I stood there in
front of him, trying to wrap my mind around what had just happened to
all of us, I slowly came to terms with what I had done. I had cried
for help at the top of my lungs when we were on the deserted beach,
and no one was around, no one came for help. So, I did what I had to
do to save Jonah's life: I took Fox away. And because no one was
around to see me do it, no one would even know that we were involved
in what had happened to him. Besides, even if someone
had
seen
us, they wouldn't be certain who we were because Fox had made the
streets around us fall to complete darkness; the only source of light
was the glowing of the silvery moon.

Fox's face flashed
through my mind again.
What if he didn't fall off of the cliff?
What would he have done to me?
During the time I had known him he
had tried to force himself on me, choke me, shock me . . . he would
have even tried to kill me if I didn't stay with him. When I took him
to the cliff our destiny was already set, only one of us was going to
survive. It ended up being me.

I suppose the silver
lining in the situation was that Fox would never be able to hurt
people with his powerful ability. I could only imagine what he would
have done if he would have continued on with his ridiculous amount of
power, a Divine, enraged and out of control. And now only Jonah knew
where his body was; no one would ever find him again.

I sighed with a
newly-formed peacefulness and gazed into my soul-mate's intoxicating
yellow eyes. “I love you so much, Jonah.”

His mouth lowered to
mine and pressed gently onto my lips, delivering a tender kiss that
filled me with the secure sense of his love. When he slowly pulled
away he looked down at me with tenderness, his piercing stare filled
with a strong look of devotion. “I love you too, Summer,”
he whispered smoothly past an affectionate smile. “Now, close
your beautiful eyes and take us home.”