Wulf clapped him on the back. “Guess you’ll be relocating here, after all.”
Urian shook his head. “We’re not back together.”
“What?”
“Long story.”
“Man, I’m sorry.”
Wishing he felt as bad about it as Wulf did, Urian sighed. “Appreciate it.”
“Uri, Uri, Uri!” Jeff came running in to take a flying leap into his arms.
“Umph!” Urian barely caught him. “Dang, boy! What have you been eating? Rocks?”
Laughing, he hugged his neck. “Are you staying long?”
“Nah, sorry. I have to get back. Did you meet your aunt Phoebe?”
“Yeah, but they’re talking about girl stuff. It’s boring.”
Cassandra and Phoebe came into the room to give him the same look most people gave to three-day-old cheese they’d left out in their car in August.
Urian set Jeff back on his feet and patted him on the head. “Well, on that note, I better run before my testicles crawl any further into my body. I might one day want to use them again.”
He left before it got any uglier or more awkward.
But then, he was used to not feeling like he belonged. In all the centuries he’d lived—all the places he’d called home—never once had he felt comfortable or at peace. Never had he felt that sense of utter belonging.
Nowhere.
That was probably the strangest part of it all. Medea had moved in with his father and found her groove right away in Kalosis, along with her mother. Davyn and Paris had synced right up the moment they met. Even Danger had shown up at Acheron’s temple with Alexion and the two of them had set up a home as if she’d always been there. Even the demon Xirena had moved right in with Simi and been fine.
Now Phoebe was at home with her sister in a way Urian had never felt welcome.
And he was …
Lost still.
Adrift in his own loneliness.
He felt weird in Kalosis with Stryker and Zephyra. While he spent most of his time in Katateros, he was isolated in one room.
Forever solitude.
It was all he’d ever known.
Oh well. It was what it was. At least he didn’t have the guilt anymore. That was something new, at least.
Those were his thoughts until he opened the door to his room to find it completely empty. As instarkempty. Like a buffet after Simi and her sister went through it.
What the hell?
Had they cleared out his stuff for another baby?
Stunned and a little pissed off, Urian turned around and went to find Alexion. “Where’s my stuff? Did we get robbed?”
Alexion stared at him as ifhe’dlost his mind. “Xyn came and got it. I assumed you knew.”
