Alex POV
She’s still so closed off. She doesn’t even see the spirits around us.
Not like they’re watching. They don’t look like humans or have body shapes. They’re just spirits flowing around us. They’re drawn to us.
She spends so much of her time worrying about what others think of her, what others have and she doesn’t realize what she is.
I didn’t notice it until after the wedding, and I think it has to do with the both of us. It’s not like we marked one another with our teeth—okay, actually we have but that’s different. There was no magical bond in that, though. Well, her cries were like a symphony but still.
We aren’t children under the goddess, so we can’t permanently mark one another and bind our souls together. We’ve done it piece by piece over the years and whe
