“No way!”
“What?”
“Wayla darling, you are going to witness a tremendous event.All twelve of the Powerhouses at once.”Salis quickly glanced at her.“Please tell me you know who the Powerhouses are?”
“I’ve heard the term once or twice, but feel free to fill me in,” she said and set her burger down.If the rest of them measured up to the first three she had seen, then common sense dictated that there was nothing she could choke on in her mouth.
“Okay, at least you’ve heard of them,” Salis sighed dramatically.“So, they formed their group partly before coming to Tracthesian, but they really banded together after they moved to that house.”
“The Powerhouse,” Wave commented and barely suppressed her urge to roll her eyes.
“Yeah.Not the best of names, but it gets the point across,” Salis said.“Anyway, they rule like royalty because in most cases, they are just that.Or just fucking powerful.And there’s always an endless line of both males and females throwing themselves at them.”
“I heard something about them being the kiss-and-tell type.”
Salis laughed softly.“Not likely.More like anyone who managed to snatch any of them, even for a night, tends to shout it from the rooftops.And then there are the incubi, of course.You know how they tend to be.”
“They need to eat,” Wave said, a bit too tightly, feeling defensive.Incubi and succubae tend to get some of the same crap over manipulation as sirens.Just not to the deadly degree.Salis glanced at her but didn’t comment further.
“Right.Well, since everyone is staring at them now, feel free to do the same,” he said.
Wave debated ignoring the invitation, but it would be good to at least know the faces of the power players in the area.Slowly, she twisted in her seat and was thankful for her decision to set her burger down.It wasn’t possible that there were so many demi-gods in one place at once… Was it?
“I’ll give you the rest of the tea later,” Salis said with a grin, as excited by the sight of them as the woman she had met on her first day.
“Uh-huh,” Wave hummed, unable to tear her gaze away.
“So, the first one is Marc, he’s specialized in combat and shields,” Salis says.Wave looked over at the man who was as wide as a barn door and made of muscle.He had closely cropped hair that looked black in this light.Next to him was another man, also made of muscle but not as wide, and he was taller than Marc.Both of them looked like they spent time in the sun, but Wave couldn’t pick up anything else.They just looked human.
“What is he?”
“A mage.So is the shaved dude next to him, Grant.He’s rumored to be the oldest of the bunch.”
“Rumored?”
“Well, no one really knows how old they are.”
“Right, mages,” Wave said.Mages aged like humans until their twenties or thirties and then slowed down drastically.Since both Marc and Grant looked to be in their late twenties, it was impossible to know for certain.
“Yep.Both of them teach the combat classes.”
“Okay.And the dark lord?”Wave asked while looking at a handsome black male with black hair and black clothes.Next to him was a white male with very blond hair, pale eyes, and white clothes.
Salis almost choked.“That’s Simeon.And the white lord next to him is Ilijas.Then there are the beast twins, Jarred and Justin.Justin is the blond one.”
Jarred had a twin?Well, damn.Wave barely kept herself in check.Justin was a perfect counterpart to Jarred’s dark glare and brooding disposition.He was laughing and joking with Ilijas while his blond hair shone and light brown eyes sparkled even from this distance.Even his skin was a few tones lighter than Jarred’s.
Still, Wave felt the tug at the bottom of her stomach when she looked at Jarred.The heat of his touch still lingered on her arm.For a second, she had the crazy urge to splash him again.
“Then there’s the demon duo,” Salis continued eagerly.“Hazard, well, Balthazar, but no one calls him that.He’s the one with black eyes.And the other one is Hellion.That’s also short for something, but I can’t remember what.He’s an envoy from the Hell Realm.”
“Distinct,” Wave muttered, looking away from Hazard’s black eyes.Hesitantly, she glanced at the demi god, Hellion.No man had a right to look that edible with clothes on.“Are they all in pairs?”
“Well… not exactly, but close.There’s Xuan, the fae prince, and Yash, the illusionist, behind the demons.”
Xuan was the shortest of the bunch and looked most like Wave with his shiny black hair and angular face, but where Wave’s hair always had that blue shine and came down to the middle of her back, Xuan’s hair was inky black and braided intricately to his waist.
“Must take a lot of hair conditioner,” Wave muttered.Salis ignored her comment and continued.
