My brows flew up. “That’s the first thing you remember? Just showing up at my door, declaring me as your wife? Incorrectly, might I add.”
“Yes. Something… led me to you. Instinctively. I did not have any memories then, just this knowing.”
“A knowing.”
“Yes, that is what I said.”
I bristled. “I don’t understand,” I admitted.
He sighed. “It is hard to explain. I simply knew. And it was all that I knew.”
“That you want me to be your wife.”
“That youweremine. That youaremine. That youwill bemine. It is undeniable. My mate. My wife. My destiny. Simply mine.”
“Do I have a say in this?”
He nodded. “Of course. For I am yours just as much as you are mine.”
“We don’t even know each other.”
“That is easy to remedy. Let us learn about each other. Is that not what we are doing now?”
“That’s not the point!” I took a sip of my tea to quell my rising frustration. It was delicious, of course, but I was annoyed again at how he seemed to know my favorite without me telling him first.
He watched me patiently.
“Are you going to run?” I asked, not sure if I wanted to hear the answer. I braced myself.
My emotions were confusing me.
“No,” he said with conviction. “I am no coward. I can handle the wrath of a mortal King.”
“Mortal,” I mused. “And what does that make you? Immortal?”
“If you would like to call it that. I believe so, but I have not tested the theory.”
“An immortal god,” I mused.
“Yes.”
“No offense, but you look so,” I waved my hand helplessly. “Normal.”
He nodded slowly. “I admit, I do not think I have always been this way. I cannot say for sure since my mind is still muddled but I think I used to be different. I used to be…more.”
“Okay. Okay. And all of you are back?”
“All of the gods? Yes, that is a safe assumption. If I am here, they must be, also.”
I swallowed back nausea. “And what does this mean for the realm?”
“I do not know. Perhaps it means nothing.”
“Gods have been gone for thousands of years.”
He grimaced at that. “Thousands, you say?”
I nodded. “Thousands. Or at least that’s what the old texts say.”
