“What?” Gareth snapped.
“Oh, nothing,” I lied. I focused back on Elra, who looked like she was worried that I was here. "Were you planning to steal the gods’ power and magic for yourselves—and leave me out?"
“No, of course not,” Elra scoffed.
“Lying is a sin, Elra.”
Her jaw clenched, and she narrowed her gaze on me. “So is fornicating with a heavenly god.”
I smiled.
“Della is close to falling from the grace of the stars, just like I promised. But now I’m wondering if I should just stop her since you all have your own thing happening.” I waved vaguely at the scene before me.
“We were just getting everything ready for when the curse breaks. We were going to steal a couple for you too.” Elra was such a lying bitch.
“No need. I brought my own.”
I yanked Thea and Cassius forward, and they stared at me like I had lost my mind. My siblings looked at Thea, whose eyes burned red with fake anger.
“I think I will take them as my own.” Elra smiled.
“Fuck you.” I immediately stepped toward her. “I got them; they are mine.”
Elra’s eyes stared into mine in a way that let me know something was wrong about all of this. Her evil smile widened as she looked at me.
“Are you trying to figure out what lie of yours I figured out?” she teased.
“No, I am trying to figure out which one of you I will kill first. Should I go from my least favorite to favorite sibling or the other way around?”
Her face paled for only a moment.
“You don’t need Cassius and Thea when you are mated to a fucking goddess,” Daya hissed. “You think we wouldn’t notice that we killed you and you did not come back to Hell so we could have our turn? She marked you and made it so you would always come back to her.”
I smiled at them. “Gods, it took you long enough. Wait…” I turned to Sydra. “Were you in charge of finding this out?”
She threw a knife at me, missing.
“Did all of you turn into sloths while I was out and about?”
“You are such an asshole.” Mateo ground out.
“You were going to leave us here while you lived with that stupid whore,” Elra hissed.
“You know I don’t appreciate you calling her that.” My eyes burned with my wrath. “That is my wife you are talking about.”
All of them stared at me like I had lost my fucking mind. But it didn’t matter. I released Thea and Cassius, knowing we were about to do some killing. I glanced around the room and hesitated before counting my siblings again. Lana was missing. Mateo smiled smugly at me.
“You just realized one of us is not here.”
I turned when I heard Della groan in pain behind me. Lana came in, dragging Della behind her with a busted lip. Where the fuck was Ezra?
“Give her to me right fucking now,” I demanded. “If you do not let her go this second, I promise I will fucking tear you all to shreds.”
“We won’t be doing that.” Lana smiled. “Say goodbye to your wife.”
“It’s a shame, Lana, that you will be the first sibling I have to kill,” I said. Lana made the mistake of standing too close to where I was. She looked up at me, ready to say something, but I had already moved toward her. I smiled as I grabbed her by the throat, picked her up, and slammed her onto the marble floor, which cracked and splintered across the room. Lana was still thrashing around. I just stared at her as her fear circled around us.
“Please…” she choked out.
