And then he saw it.
The diviner in her hands.Fusing back together, like magnets.
Until it was once again whole.
“I thought he broke it,” Lorelai said, clutching close to Mars.
“He did,” Izzy said in wonder.
“He broke the thread,” Mars murmured.“And in turn, he broke the hold it had on him.”
Calliope choked, sniffling as tears fell down her face.
“I don’t know what you guys are talking about, why is everyone crying?”Chuck asked.
Theo clapped him on the back, while holding Calliope close.“It’s a long story, but, uh...maybe we can talk about it tomorrow?I’m kind of exhausted after all of that.”
“Me too,” Spike said.
“I am going to third that and say yes, let’s get the fuck out of here,” Izzy chimed.
Lorelai smiled.“And get that diviner back where it belongs.”
Calliope sniffled again and Theo grinned as he noticed the small thread, jutting out of his chest, landing against Calliope’s.
The diviner didn’t lie.
Calliope was his soul mate.
But he didn’t need a rock to tell him such.
All he needed was to look in her eyes.
“And it is a school night,” Theo said with a smirk.
Calliope laughed through her tears.
CHAPTER13
When Theo pulledthe car up to her apartment, neither of them moved, even after the car had been turned off.
They sat in companionable silence, processing the events of the night.Well, perhaps, the last fewdays,if Calliope was being honest.
“Can I walk you to your door?”Theo asked, turning to look at her.
The diviner was gone, nestled back in the gallery, but this time, Calliope had chosen to secure it in the vault in the office.While Pegasus seemed to be not as irritable and angry, she didn’t want to take chances.Though Theo seemed to think whatever had happened had indeed worked.He wouldn’t call it magic, but Calliope knew magic was most certainly involved.But she did not press Theo, instead she leaned back, closed her eyes and listened to the radio as hermatedrove her home.
“I’d like that,” she said with a smile as he got out of the car to open her door.
He offered her his hand, and she took it without question.Suddenly, everything made sense.Her apprehension, her anger toward Chuck.Her reluctance to see him.The thread between them needed to be cut.It had affected them both, and now that it was severed, she was free to be with her true divine mate.
Theodore Lange.
Who stood in the face of an angry ex-boyfriend pegacorn and offered himfriendship.
It was not the vampire or the hellhound, or the God of War, or the muse herself that had saved them all—including the patrons of theDen of Sin—from a blinding monster.It was thehuman.
It was Theodore and his heart.The very heart that loved her and challenged her and inspired her.
