“And you caught me every time, and I am paying my dues.” I glared back at him.
Malamay’s jaw clenched as he stared at me. “You were supposed to save all of my children, not let them die in Hell. Nowthey can never be reborn because they are trapped down there forever.”
I sighed heavily. “I tried to get them out. It’s not my fault that the God of Death interfered. I died trying to get them out.” I lied.
I had stood there in Hell with all of them in my hands and smiled as everything caved in around me, crushing me to death but sealing all of them down there for eternity.
“You have died before; don’t act like you made some huge sacrifice for us by trying to get them out.”
“I could have gone to the gods with what happened to me, and they would’ve all turned on you, but I didn’t. So why are you treating me like I am the bad guy here? I didn’t know what was going to happen. Haden would have never done what you wanted him to.”
He scoffed. “Because you were too busy crawling into bed with the one man I told you to stay away from. You fucking tainted him. You made him abandon all his wrath, and for what, love?” He spat as he gripped my arm tightly.
“Sorry that Haden and I are mated, but you can’t blame me for him not being inherently bad.”
“I’m not stupid. I know that you can’t have a mating bond when he is in Hell. And you were technically dead when he met you. You were a fucking star at that point. So how did you know he was going to be yours? I told you he was promised to Abarra for a partner. So how did you do it?”
Over my dead body was he ever going to belong to that fucking bitch. He would’ve never been attracted to her. It was always supposed to be me. Malamay and Diath had carefully chosen the gods and goddesses they let be stars. They had handpicked a mate for each of their children to unite with when they broke their curse. As for me, I was chosen for Mateo—the prideful fuck. Not my type.
I opened my mouth to answer him when Diath shouted, “He isn’t here.”
They all came out of the house and stared at me.
“Where the fuck is he?” Diath asked as she stepped toward me.
“How the hell would I know?”
Diath looked around as if Haden was hiding in the fucking woods. She turned back to Malamay, scowling.
“Did you let her see him alone?”
He stilled as he looked at me. I smiled because he was not supposed to let me see Haden by myself.
“No,” he lied. “You better not have told him anything last night,” he whispered.
“I didn’t.”
Malamay’s eyes frosted, and I smiled because I knew it was fear causing his magic to get out of control.
“Go find Thea and Cassius; he’s probably there. If not, go pay his fake family a visit and torture them for information if needed.”
I shoved him. Malamay gripped me tighter.
“Maybe you should have thought about them before you did whatever you did to warn him.”
“You probably listened in on our entire conversation last night; I didn’t say anything. Besides, you are the one that sent him to Avesh.” I glared. Malamay didn’t know that I planted that idea in his mind before we came out of the house last night. “Should I tell your wife that you left me alone with Haden?”
“If you do, I will fucking end him.”
I smiled at him. “You can’t even find him.”
Diath came over to us to see what the arguing was about while the others went to try and find everyone that meant something to me. Diath stared at me for a brief moment before she slapped me across the face. I laughed just to piss her off.
“You fucking bitch. How much of this was you?”
“What do you mean?” I acted stupid.
Her eyes flashed red. “You manipulative bitch.” She went to hit me again, but Malamay stopped her, grabbing her by the wrist. “Let me go.”
