22

                                    

                                          
{three days later}
The light penetrates through my eyelids forcing me to wake. I am sore and aching internally, my body strapped down. My mind is raging with thoughts and questions, where the fuck am I? What happened? But nothing can be voiced into words, my throat is too numb.
"Luna?"
My eyes shift to the familiar voice and I see my beautiful man, my paradise. His eyes are dark and tired and his hair is untamed. Nonetheless, he is beautiful.
"Jace," I manage to say, and he kisses my hand softly. "Don't look at me."
"How come?" 
"I don't look okay, I must look horrendous." I really did feel that way in the presence of his beauty, it is hard not to compare, especially knowing I myself may be pale and purple.
"If there is a flaw in you, then it truly is me who is blind, for the only flaw would be my eyes."
Tears stream down my sore cheeks and I smile and giggle. "Where did that come from?"
"I mean it, my Luna." he carves my jaw with his fingers and goosebumps rise up at his touch - good goosebumps.
"Luna, I'm sorry truly, if we didn't argue," his voice stiffles and he turns to squeeze my hand, placing his cheek on top of it. "You wouldn't be here."
"The tea."
"A green witch managed to get all the poison out before it could kill you. I cannot even think..." Jace kisses my hand again and I stay still, relishing in the warmth of his soft lips.
"I was poisoned? By whom?" 
"One of the subordinates...and Mother Margarine."
"How is that even possible, I never suspected.." I am saddened by this news. I truly did appreciate all she had done for me. "Was it Gudder? He never really liked me I suppose."
"Yes, but they are gone now for trials. I would prefer them hanged, for hurting you like this and for going behind my back."
"You're a charmer Jace."
"As for Gardenia, the border is once again protected. All threats that we know off have subsided."
"Wonderful" I croak, tired of keeping my eyes open but unwilling to close them, only because I am starved from Jace's handsome face. 
"Will you stay a while?" I whisper, squeezing his hand that hasn't left my grip.
His glistening eyes pierce through mine and I tremble in delight, melting at his gaze like soft ice cream.
"Luna."
"Yes?"
"I love you more than anything in this life and the next."
Love. He has finally said the golden words, the words that have completed me through and through.
"I love you Jace. Marry me," I whisper, my eyes gazing at him in lovestruck. "Marry me and mean it."