“So how is it you can shapeshift? I didn’t think a full-blooded drakomai could do that.”
“Most can’t.”
She arched a brow at him. “But…”
This time, he was the one who paused. He turned to look at her as if he wanted to see her expression. “I can shift for the same reason your father can.”
You’re an asswas the first thought she had, but it was quickly followed by the truth.
A truth that slapped her hard.
No…
Her stomach shrank. “You’re a demigod.”
“Technically, I’m a full god who was cursed at my birth.”
Oh yeah, now an ulcer was starting to form. Either that, or she was getting ready to give birth to a diamond, because her stomach clenched hard enough to create one in the pit of her belly. “What?”
“You know,” he said sarcastically. “Both my parents were gods. My mother made a play for the head of her pantheon, and when his wife found out, she reacted as any goddess would. Sadly, my mother’s powers weren’t what she thought them to be, and she learned the hard way how weak she was in comparison to Shyamala.”
Medea furrowed her brow as she tried to follow his explanation. “Shyamala? I don’t know a goddess with that name.”
“Yeah, you do. You just know her by her more contemporary name. Azura.”
Medea felt the blood drain from her cheeks as she made the most horrific connection ever.
If Azura was the goddess who cursed his mother for dabbling with her mate, there was only one male god who could have fathered him.
Holy fucking shit…
“You’re a son of Noir.”
The king god ofallevil.
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Falcyn let out a long, tired sigh. “No one can help who their parents are.”
“Yeah, but Noir… I didn’t know he had any children.”
“We are few and far between, as Azura can’t stand us and tends to put a hit on us from the moment we’re conceived. Most of our mothers never survive to birth us.”
Little wonder he was so paranoid. Angry.
And fierce.
No doubt he’d been looking over his shoulder his entire life.
“What happened to your mother?”
“As soon as Azura found out, my mother, Lilith, was cast from her pantheon, turned into a demon, and villainized. Of course, my mother didn’t go quietly into the good night. Her wrath was such that she over-embraced her new role as lead bitch, and began plotting revenge on them all.”
Medea had to bite back a sarcastic laugh at that. Azura and Noir were two of the most lethal and dangerous gods the universe had ever spat out. It said a lot about his mother that she’d ever think to take them on—it was something her own mother might have done in her youth.
Lilith was either extremely brave or radically stupid. Yet honestly, Medea couldn’t imagine anyone being enough of either to ever try to take on one primal power.
Never mind two…
