“She needs to destress more than anything. Stress raises cortisol, which is raising her blood sugar. Sage is managing it and magical combat is helping, but the sooner we get rid of Forsaken Ones and she can just focus on being a nineteen-year-old who just found out she’s magical, the better.”
“Lucian, you can’t tell that by scent, so you’d better explain before I shift and bite you,” Khalid growled.
Wait, a minute. I didn’t have enhanced smell, but I was connected to nature and I knew nature could tell when something was off with someone. I pulled Doris out my pocket and flipped her open. If I stabbed him, he’d heal before Sage got back. He’d better not be drinking so much of her blood that he knew she was stressed and it was causing issues with her blood sugar. If she wasn’t feeling one hundred percent, he didn’t need to be biting her at all.
I stabbed him in the leg before he could explain himself because the things going through my head put me in a darkplace. Lucian hissed and used his vampire speed and strength to pin me and sink those fangs in my neck. Fucker made it hurt, too.
“That’s cheating,” I slurred because he was taking a lot of blood.
Lucian sat back and glared at me. Khalid looked like he was ready for some violence and I was dying to see the cop’s son commit some felony battery.
“I’m barely containing my jackal from shifting and tearing your throat out, so you have five seconds to explain how you know she’s having issues with her blood sugar and if it involves what I think it does, I’m still going to bite you.”
“I hacked her glucose monitor, you savages. I haven’t bitten her since I realized she was having problems. I’ve been biting Liam every time he annoys me.”
Hehadbeen biting me more than usual, but I figured maybe the Prince of Darkness was having a bit of a bisexual awakening and he was just flirting. I couldn’t tell if I wanted to hug him or stab him again. On the one hand, he was looking out for her and had been this entire time. On the other, that shite was private.
So, I had to make a split-second decision on how to handle this. I was rather woozy because the little Muppet took a bit too much blood after I stabbed him. It would ruin my reputation if I passed out trying to stab him again. Maybe Khalid would take one for the team and bite him on the arse.
“I want access to her glucose monitor. We should all be looking out for her,” Khalid said.
Wow, I wasnotexpecting that from Mister Straight and Narrow. Sage had been looking at little pale lately, but she also hadn’t said anything about not feeling well. She told us her Da was an utter shite about it if she had a blood sugar episode when she was younger and her classmates bullied her about it, too.
I had her permission to kill her Da, but she hadn’t given me the names of those classmates. I’d get it out of her. But she was so careful with her diabetes and she knew her body more than we did. She’d tell us if she needed help, right?
“I’m not going to rat you out to Sage because Iloathesnitches, but we’re going totalkabout it like civilized men. It’s not going to be an intervention because she doesn’t need to feel like we’re ganging up on her. We’re just going to mention she’s been a little pale lately and ask if she’s feeling okay and needs anything. Have snacks ready before she can ask for them, but I’m going to stabbothof you if you make her feel any kind of way about having issues with her diabetes.”
“I would have thought you wanted access to her glucose monitor, too,” Khalid huffed.
I flicked his nose.
“Consent, you plonker. That goes for medical information, too.”
“I get it. And Lucian, you can bite me, too, since you aren’t feeding from Sage right now.”
“It’s immensely more satisfying to bite Liam when he’s being annoying.”
Yeah, yeah. I was still leaning towards this being a bi thing.
The tavern on campus wasn’t just great because of the entertainment, drinks, and food. If I needed to find some supernaturals to ask questions about a theory I had, they were there. Bonus points, faculty was there, too, so I also got to run it by two War Gods.
I had to wait for Professor Gefn to finish tearing Professor Adamastus a new asshole before I could approach. Freya was a God of War, but she was also a God of Love and Beauty, so sheknewProfessor Adamastus was supposed to be with Morgana. The faculty all loved Morgana because she was brilliant and worked hard.
I had to get back to my dorm because it was getting late, but when I found Morgana again, I was so telling her the reincarnation of Ares got called a meat-headed simpleton by the reincarnation of Freya for ignoring the bond this long. She also walloped him on the back of the head, called him a donkey with a thick neck, and told him he was holding her back magically by not completing the bond with them.
Well, I also had questions about that in addition to running my plan by them. Liam and I both got a little bit more of our magic when it was all of us together. Professor Gefn said that was normal even if you weren’t in bed with the OG Fertility God and punched Professor Adamastus right in the dick. Apparently, he was holdingeveryoneback including himself by being hung up on the fact that he was her professor.
And Morgana was right. Everything I’d read about Ares since I got here was that he was a bit of a hothead who liked starting fights. He grunted when he got punched in the dick, walked over to the bar to ask for some ice, and then just sat there icing his nuts while I talked about my plan.
But it could work. The War gods and the supernatural students I asked confirmed it. Of course, this was all hinging on all of us figuring out how to use magic the lore said we should have, but didn’t know how to use yet and my gut feeling that Adrian’s eternal flame was the key to keeping them in the void where they couldn’t just come back.
If strengthening our bonds meant more magic, then I wasn’t going to complain about spending time with my guys and having lots of sex. Except for my plan to work, Adrian needed to be magically stronger, too, and Iman wasn’t down for sex with any of them yet. I wasn’t going to tell her shehadto because pressuring anyone into sex before they were ready was gross.
Adrian did a swap with Ivar, Ari, and Alexios’s roommates Morgana like I did. Iman had all but moved in, too. No one wascomplaining about Iman putting off sex, but Adrian seemed to be getting up to all kinds of foolishness trying to tempt her and he usually ended up dying again.
When I got back to my dorm, I thought announcing that my plan had the approval of two War Gods and involved lots of sex would get the seal of approval from everyone, but Liam had blood on his shirt and Lucian had blood on his trousers when I opened the door, so they’d better have a good explanation for that if they wanted an orgy.
I kicked the door shut behind me and just stood there staring with my arms crossed. It should be self-explanatory why I was pissed, but obviously not.
