Also bare chested, with a new mark in the now I could not see for Hera’s position was hiding it, one that was over his heart, was Mac. He was on his arse, his legs spread, his knees bent, and between them, resting back against his chest, her own torso fully exposed, was Hera.

Cassius was on his knees beside her, bent over her, inking Rose into her skin at her inside left breast.

Hera had her head resting on Mac’s shoulder, his arms were about her, hands flat on her belly, and her chin was tipped down, watching Cass at work, as Mac’s chin was on her shoulder, and he was doing the same.

I had not missed that they had found each other after their losses. Hera was not of that bent it would become more, but I felt there was great beauty that they would not mourn alone. They both had someone they could turn to who understood.

They were, in a way both beautiful and sad, each other’s unicorns.

“It is discomfiting to wonder why I so loathed these men for as long as I could cogitate,” Serena, sitting at my side, muttered her thoughts into mine.

“Some of them are pretty magnificent,” I muttered in return.

“This I see,” she replied. “And with the way our sisters are watching this ceremony, and Hera’s participation in it, I foresee ink spreading across The Enchantments.”

It was my opinion this would not be bad.

“I did not think there was anything good about that realm,” she admitted.

“Perhaps we are not the sum of our parts,” I suggested.

“Mm,” she hummed.

“Though, if it makes you feel better, there are some of them who are significant arseholes,” I shared.

I heard my sister chuckle, and I felt magic fill me at the hearing of that, wondering if that magic came from her to me, or if it came from Mum and Jasmine happy that she gave it to me.

“Can I trust this, uh…Trusted?” I asked.

“I…he is…that is, we…”

At her struggle for words, something that was most unusual from her, I tore my eyes from the ceremony before me and looked to my sister.

When I caught her gaze, she said, “I would race to the moon for him. And I would fall through the skies for eternity with him in my arms.”

“Serena,” I whispered, stunned at the poetry of her words.

“I know not how it happened, Elena,” she replied. “It just…did.”

“It has a habit of doing that.”

“It just did for you too, with Cassius?”

I nodded but said, “Well, he sort of earned it.”

“In Chu’s case, he sort of demanded it.”

Demanded it?

Of Serena?

I raised my brows.

“Do not ask how that happened either. It just…did,” she muttered

I grinned at her.