I drew in a breath. Were they seriously asking us to help find her so they could finish the job? And why wasn’t my new magic setting off a million warning bells.
“Hold my curry,” Liam said, shoving it at Lucian. “If there’s even a grain of rice missing, I can make a shiv out of a spork and a piece of Naan. I’ll stab you in the neck and regret nothing.”
Lucian just nodded and took the curry without comment. I wasn’t going to stop whatever happened next and it didn’t look like Khalid planned to, either. Liam justexploded.He was tall and muscular, but more like a swimmer.
The blond that asked about Lola was probably the biggest man I’d seen in my entire life. He had muscles on his muscles. Liam just started punching and as big as the blond was, it didn’t look like he’d been in a brawl before. He also looked completely shocked Liam was trying to kick his ass.
“What the fuck?”
Except something wasn’t adding up.
“Liam, wait!”
Liam stopped, but he punched the blond in the kidneys before he stopped for good.
“Did you want to hit him, too, lass?”
“No, I really don’t think he knows whyyou’rehitting him.”
“I don’t!”
“I’ve met psychos like him before. He doesn’t know why I’m beating him because he doesn’t think he did anything wrong.”
“Check their hands,” Khalid said. “They had to bare knuckle it out here. It would leave a mark.”
“I’ve got super healing and the rest of you heal fast. You saw what my blood did. They could have stolen blood from one of mine because I don’t see any marks on their hands.”
“Don’t jostle my curry. I’m serious about the spork to the neck.”
“Maybe you should be stabbingtheminstead of threatening me over your curry.”
“Why are we stabbing us?”
Lucian was right. The three golden men didn’t have a single mark on their fists like they’d beaten the shit out of a woman. Lucian healed instantly from the arrow in his leg, but we didn’t know enough about how we healed now to know if they’d done it and healed.
“Listen, I’m Ivar. I knew who I used to be as soon as I got the vision in the pool. I saw lightning hit a hammer. I was Thor in my first life. Thor was a hero and I’m not a bad guy, either. Did something happen to Lola? Because if it did, I’m mad about it, too.”
Someonebeat the shit out of Lola and I didn’t see why she would lie about it. It wasn’t one of the supernatural students because we already knew they didn’t want to hurt us. We didn’t really have time to get to know anyone else long enough to piss them off like that.
I’d been stressed ever since I got kidnapped, so I didn’t really pay attention to most of the faces. I knew Khalid, Liam, and Lucian because I’d talked to them and now, we were a team. The others were because I’d talked to them during the trials.
It would be like that for all of us. No one had spent enough time around Lola to be mad enough to hurt her like that except these men. And you didn’t know she felt weird to be around unless she was close to you.
So, it didn’t make sense that anyone else would have beaten her. But they also didn’t feel like evil men.
“We don’t know enough,” I said. “We don’t know enough aboutanyof this to go around hurting anyone. Someone beat the shit out of Lola and it makes sense it was them. She couldn’t have done that to herself and she’s with people she asked to go with. Everyone can get their revenge and punch each other when we’ve figured out who we are and why we got reincarnated.”
“If Thor got reincarnated as a villain, I’m going to cry. Give me the curry. I need to eat my feelings,” Liam said.
“I’m not a—You know what, I don’t know why Lola said we hurt her, but we didn’t. I know this becauseIwouldn’t and if someone on my team tried, I’d stop them. I realize it’s our word against hers and we have no proof. I’m going to get our crystals and find that proof.”
“Go do that then because that girl had the shite beaten out of her and I’m still feeling stabby with my spork,” Liam said.
Khalid and I shared a look after they left because out of all of us, we could get the best reads on people, but it was Lucian who spoke.
“Khalid had a good point. Whoever hit Lola would have leftsomethingon her—blood, skin, whatever. I couldn’t smell anyone on her.”
“Me, either,” Khalid said.
