“How do you know where her house is?” Yemi asks.
My lips part.
“No,” I mumble.
He gives me a clipped nod. “That’s the goddess Harriseen assigned me to.”
Fuck.
“You don’t have to come with us when we go. If you could just tell V, let him see in your mind, he can starshoot all of us.”
Iric shakes his head, and the fine hairs across my body stand on edge.
“I’ll be there alongside all of you.”
I exhale subtly as I wrangle my quick burst of anger back down.
“Thank you.”
“So everyone knows what they’re doing right now?” Yemi asks, jumping right into organizer mode.
They all echo yes, and then she focuses on me.
“Where’s your first stop?”
I glance at Sevryn, and my lips tilt into a smirk.
“The barrier at the Abandon. We’re going to pay the dear ol’ God of Strength a visit.”
Thayla
20
Wood colliding with wood mingles with the grunts and groans that pierce my hearing as soon as my starshoot releases me.
Sevryn pops up right beside me, wearing a look of disgust that almost pulls a chuckle from my lips.
“Let’s find this big fucker, then go do what we’ve got to do,” he says.
Heads turn in our direction as we march through the many sparring matches. I don’t pay them any attention as my eyes stay peeled for Gladian. It really shouldn’t be this difficult to find his ass.
“You really don’t like him, huh?” I ask.
“No.”
“Why?”
“Do I need a reason?” he asks with a smart-ass arch in his brow.
“Not necessarily, but usually there’s a reason behind the level of dislike you have toward him. You had never even met him until our quest.”
He grunts, staring and shaking his head at the two male Defenders who are beating the shit out of each other a few feet to our left.
“He’s the reason my father turned out the way he is.”
My feet slam to a stop. “What?”
“Yeah. Once upon a time, they were best—”
