Page 111 of Oracle Returns: Time will Stop

“I’ve got you, Lucian.”

When he looked up at her, she kissed him on the mouth, and it was the perfect kiss.

There was the tangle of tongues and that gentle warmth that always washed over them.

Nothing was different.

NOTHING.

In that moment, it was crystal clear to her that he still loved her and wanted her. She could feel his erection beneath her bottom, as that kiss woke him up.

When she broke the kiss, she stared into his eye.

“We’ll work it out. I don’t want a divorce, Lucian. I don’t want our girls to grow up with a part-time father. We’ll figure this out and find a solution that works for us.”

He was honest.

“Ridge is a victim in this, too. Please don’t hate him. He’s never tried to take what wasn’t his. I’m the stronger psychic, and I’ll carry this blame.”

She was to the point.

“I don’t blame him. Only, he shouldn’t have lied to you. Couples don’t lie, Lucian. They deal with the fallout. We’ve always had a lie-free rule.”

Lucian was well aware, but fear made you do crazy things. This was proof of it.

“We aren’t a couple. We’re just trapped in this mess.”

She stopped him.

“You are a couple. You and I are one, and you and he are one. That bond was made, and we both know it won’t be broken. Eventually, we’ll have to figure out how this is going to work. In a way, he’s damn lucky that Wynter never found out about this. She would have divorced him. She didn’t know, right?”

Oh, he was pretty sure she hadn’t known, or it would have been a bloodbath.

Ridge would have lost his wife over this, and ironically, he had. Fate had made sure of that.

Now, though, Lucian had hope that they’d figure this out.

“You’d let me have that?” he asked.

Truthfully, he hadn’t seen that coming.

She nodded.

“What happened wasn’t intentional. I’m not jealous of your relationship in the static with Ridge. So now, I’m going to have to adjust to it on this plane. As long as you’re not replacing me…”

He stopped her.

That was NEVER happening.

If Ridge ever wanted that, he’d be gone in a heartbeat, regardless of their ties. His wife was OFF LIMITS and was never going to be collateral damage.

She was his queen.

“Bishop. Never. I can’t replace you. We began this journey when you saved me. We’ve been a couple for a while, and I love you more each day. Not less.”

She believed him.

“Then, I’m okay with it. I mean, I’ll become okay with it. Ridge needs his family now, and we’re it. He and Sophia are part of us now, and we’ll adjust, and we’ll go from there. We can’t turn him and his child out in the world to figure this out. It looks like our intermediate family just got bigger.”