“Please,” he muttered with sarcasm. “You’re just embarrassed because it’s the truth, and you’re afraid your mate won’t sleep with you every night once she hears it.”
Wolfe glanced at me. “Bring earplugs to bed.”
“I actually snore too. He’ll need his own set of earplugs. My father listens to music at night when I’m there so he can get some rest.”
Godric’s eyes captured mine. “You really snore?”
“Oh, yeah. It’s bad.”
The wrinkles of worry vanished from his forehead, and he smiled, the corners of his eyes crinkling. “The magic picked well. Because the asshole is right. I snore like the devil when I’m stressed.”
My lips curved. He was quite adorable.
Rune groaned. “They’re cute and shit.”
Alaric muttered, “I hope he finds his balls when he returns to work. I can’t put up with him smiling all the time like that.”
Godric leaned down and kissed my lips softly. “I think it’s time for them to leave. What do you think, pet?”
“It’s your house. Your rules.”
Cassander’s head cocked. “I just thought of something.”
“It’s a miracle,” Godric rumbled.
“Fuck off,” Cassander groused absently. His silver eyes swung in my direction. “You said the golems had green light in their mouths?”
I nodded.
“That would have to do with the soul.”
“Huh?” He was talking gibberish.
“Twisting the magic to darkness,” he mumbled to himself, staring at his lap. He tapped his thumbs together, lost in thought. “What did the green light do, Ms. Carvene?”
“Poppy,” I corrected him.
“Apologies.” Silver eyes looked up and refocused. “Did the green light do anything other than appear to be hypnotic, like you said?”
I nibbled on my bottom lip. “It was kind of all-consuming. That’s the best way I can explain it.”
His eyes narrowed. “I know what it is.”
Wolfe asked, “What?”
“The golems were meant to suck the soul from her.”
I jerked back in surprise. “That would have killed me, wouldn’t it have?”
A soul was a soul. It couldn’t be reformed.
What you had was what you got. Immortal or not.
“Kind of,” he hedged. “Your body would still be living, but no one would be in residence. Once the soul leaves the body, it doesn’t return.”
Godric hissed, “How sure are you on this?”
“Almost positive. It makes the most sense with everything I’ve learned from watching souls leave bodies.”
