Atlas winked. “Of course not. Sorry. I got excited. I mean, dragons.”
Bel let Atlas’s word go. Everyone was always so excited about dragons. In his opinion, demons were the most powerful creatures in existence. They literally had magic at the tips of his fingers. He continued, “We have the dragon shifter who is the Alpha of the family mated to a human. And Bo, Craig, and Nate.”
He had to tick the couple off on his fingers. “Then Drake, the vampire, and his human mate, Lawson. Next the fae king, Rainier, his human mate, River, who is Lawson’s brother, and Anton, who is Axel’s brother and a dragon shifter as well.”
“Okay. That’s a lot,” Atlas said.
“I’m not even halfway done.”
Atlas’s blue eyes widened. “What?”
“There were a couple of shifters that found their mates next. Shawn is a wolf shifter and Trevor a panther shifter and both are mated to humans.”
Atlas shuddered. “Those…must be huge shifters.”
Bel nodded. The shifters were the issue. He could see it now. “Now we come to my realm. Lawson and River’s brother, Seb, came to visit Nate and he met Ash, who is a reaper.”
“Reaper. Like the reaper of souls? You’ve mentioned souls a lot, making me lean toward that description,” Atlas said.
“Yes, very well done.” Bel made sure his voice held all the pride he felt.
“Okay, now I can see where you’re going with this, I think.”
“Probably so. At Ash and Seb’s mating ceremony, Adam, half dryad and half fae, met Mal, the master of punishment,” Bel continued.
“Master of punishment. Do I even want to know what that means?”
“What? Don’t you want to guess? You’ve done quite well so far,” Bel praised.
Rolling his shoulders and lifting his chin, Atlas preened. “Based on your descriptions of demons and your realm I’m going to say that the master of punishment is probably an important demon that…punishes the worst of the souls.”
Bel had known that Atlas would fit in perfectly with them. That he would be an amazing addition to the family. The boys would love the way he thought out every scenario. “Very good.”
“Yes!” Atlas pumped his arm. “Although I’m beginning to think I should have written all this down. That is a lot of names and…species?”
“Species works,” Bel assured him. And Atlas had been worried about offending one of them. As long as he didn’t call anyone a monster, they were going to get along fine. “And Seb has a chart.”
Atlas laughed. “He would need it. Now who?” the boy bounced as he asked.
Bel had to think for a moment. “After Adam and Mal was… Oh! Levi. The gargoyle of the pack mated to a human. Mason. Mason has a twin brother, Jason, who is mates to one of our demons, Tristan.”
“Yeah, this needs a chart.”
“Seb, Ash, Adam, Mal, Jason, and Tristan all live in our realm. Rainier, Anton, and River live in the fae realm, the others live in the human realm where you come from except Bo, and Craig and Nate come back and forth.”
“And now we’re talking about other realms,” Atlas groaned.
“But at least we are done with the pack?”
Bel smiled slowly.
“We’re not?” Atlas asked incredulously.
“No.”
“Keep going,” Atlas said. “I might need some Irish in my coffee though.”
Bel lifted a brow in offering.
