EPILOGUE

ROSETTE

“Hey, sweetheart,” Axel said as I picked up the video call, a wide smile on his face, his hair blowing in the wind.

“Hi,” I replied, taking a seat and dropping my bag.

“How’s my gorgeous human doing?”

I sighed. “Oh, you know, she’s lonely and misses her man.”

“Hey, hey, you were the one who told me to live, and stopped hovering around you like I was your shadow. You particularly blackmailed me.”

Yeah, I remembered that night. We were just done making love, tangled in each other, covered in sweat, and I had said, “You should go see the sea.”

It was the first month after...