“So, I personally voted for kidnapping a pony shifter for two hours for making it seem like we didn’t think you were capable, so you left to shit-talk us with your girlfriends,” Liam said.
“It was just my jackal being stupid. We figured it out.”
“I claim no part in that. I knew you could handle yourself the whole time.”
Did they…? Boys were stupid sometimes. Did they really think I was still irritated they got all overprotective about the prophecy and not that Liam and Lucian were both covered in blood? I pinched the bridge of my nose and took in a deep breath.
“I’m actually over that. Anyone care to explain the blood?”
“That? That was just a misunderstanding. We sorted it, love,” Liam said.
“That wasn’t a misunderstanding, Liam. That’s assault.”
Liam screwed up his face like I was talking crazy.
“Why else would you stab someone? You generally need a reason and sometimes you find out later you were wrong about that. I’m rarely wrong, but I’m man enough to admit when I am.”
“I was just defending myself and getting a snack at the same time,” Lucian said.
“You’re both making this so much worse,” Khalid moaned.
“So, cards on the table, love. We’ve noticed you’ve been paler than usual and were talking about it while you were gone. Lucian dropped the bomb that stress can mess with diabetes and we both thought he was feeding on you, anyway.”
Was that why he hadn’t fed from me in the last two weeks? He’d been using the blood bar in the dining hall and biting Liam when Liam poked him. I thought he was just finally having baby vampire issues and was too full to feed from me.
“So, yes, stress can affect diabetes, but growing up in the same house as Blue Matthews was basically constant stress. He tried to control everything about my life and I had virtually zero privacy. It’s obviously not as stressful as stopping an age of inhumanity, but I know how to handle it. The food from Fairy makes it so much easier. I really just need to make sure I get enough sleep and I’ve been having trouble with that because it feels like I’m waiting for something to happen. That probably means something.”
“Are you mad? We aren’t trying to say we understand diabetes more than you do,” Khalid said.
“Obviously, I’m mad about the stabbing and biting, but not that you worried. It’s nice that you give a shit. Blue Matthews only cared if it embarrassed him in public. I still haven’t called my mother and I can’t until she’s away from him. I don’t know if she checked out to protect me from him or she couldn’t stand looking at me because I look like him now that I’ve seen his ghost. But maybe talk to me about my disease instead of assuming and assaulting each other.”
“We can do that. And if you need help, talk to us.”
“I do need help. Remember how I could see how it would go if we went after the crystals during the trials? I think I figured out how to successfully complete Alexios’s last prophecy about Winter Solstice and I need your help. Only Lucian and I maybe mentioned in the prophecy, butallof you are needed to end this.”
Liam perked up right away, and I got it. Heshouldhave been in the prophecy. Lola and Radames targeted him and he deserved his revenge. I couldfeelthat Adrian, Mazen, Lucian, and I weren’t enough to do this on our own. We’d be doing the heavy lifting and Adrian would end it for good, but it wouldn’t work without help.
I was done doubting my gut feelings. They’d been right so far and my guys had done nothing but believe in me since we teamed up.
So, I told them my plan.
I’d been thinking about Fate ever since Sage told us her plan. Sage could have told me I needed to dress in one of those inflatable T-Rex costumes and roller skate around the battle while yodeling to end this and I would have believed her because that was her gift.
That wasn’t what she said, of course. Her plan was good, and I learned my mate had a very devious side. This was all hinging on everyone getting magic they didn’t have yet, but she had a plan for that, too.
We just couldn’t start until Liam and Lucian showered the blood off of them. Sage insisted, and I wasn’t all that wild about getting blood on me, either. Liam jumped in and jumped out,but Lucian had an entire routine when he showered and it took forever. It was annoying enough when I just wanted to wash magical combat off me, but he was holding up sex with my mate. Sage wouldn’t start without him.
So, I was thinking about Fate while we waited. This all came down to the Egyptian school needing to be repaired and them deciding to make upgrades since the school was going to be closed, anyway.
My life would be completely different. Sage was my mate, but if I hadn’t gone to school here, would I have caught feelings for someone else because I didn’t know any better?
Headmaster Mykene confirmed the pools did strange things if people got in them together and it would be entirely possible for the reincarnations of a God and his creation to get in one together and remember literally everything. There were usually special circumstances when someone remembered their previous lives.
It would have been amazing to have Anubis’s memories from a historical perspective and knowing how all my magic worked. Anubis was married to Anput in his original life. I’d never been in love before Sage and I wouldn’t want feelings from former lives complicating things.
“Should I drag him out of the shower?” Liam asked.
I was on board with dragging Lucian out of the shower. I wasn’t involved in the stabbing and biting, so I didn’t have a drop of blood on me, but if Sage wanted me to shower before we had sex, I’d get clean, but I’d do it in a hurry. Liam and I had excellent hygiene, but Lucian took it a bit far.
