When I wake up the following day, the bed feels empty, and Roman's scent is faint. I groggily open my eyes and confirm he is indeed not in bed with me. I'm momentarily confused before the smell of bacon reaches my nostrils. I sit up in disbelief; there is no way the big bad Alpha is cooking me breakfast. I throw one of his shirts on and walk downstairs. My eyes widen at the sight before me. Roman is standing shirtless at the stove; a dish towel is thrown over his shoulder, a pile of pancakes and bacon is next to him, Red Hot Chili Peppers is playing on the speaker, and he's singing along. I admire the sight; how long did the Goddess have to spend sculpting this man to perfection for me? "You know you're supposed to have a shirt on when you cook, right?" I tease him as I walk up to him and wrap my arms around him "Good morning to you too, and that rule is for humans who cry over a little tiny grease splatter burning them," he says, leaning down and kissing me. "Well, you're not a
We spent eight days at the cottage, the extra day happening after Amara used her tears and a couple other parts of her to convince me to stay. But unfortunately, we have to get back to regular life. Aston, of course, whined like a little baby whenever I told him we were staying one more day. We spent pretty much the entire eight days having sex, and occasionally Amara would train. She would execute anything I had her do perfectly, so we could have dived a little deeper into the training if we hadn't gotten distracted. Yeah, we might have ended up fucking in the backyard a couple times. After the run back, we're just now walking into the packhouse."I'm gonna go find Violet! I'll stop by your office after." Amara says to me and kisses me quickly before running off.Okay then, I guess she isn't too upset about coming home. I chuckle and walk into my office.My eyes nearly jump out of my head when I see the pile of paperwork sitting on my desk. Fucking Aston! Did he do any paperwork at
My face is drained of color, and I feel dizzy. He knew he knew without me even looking at him. So that means anyone else who knew about this prophecy or whatever would know just by looking at me. I must sway on my feet a little bit because Roman pulls me to his lap. I take a couple deep breaths to calm myself, trying to keep my voice from breaking. "How did you know?" I ask "Your aura. I've never seen anything like it. Fae can read auras; it's like a sixth sense. Yours screams power, royalty, darkness, light, chaos…." Thayer says, pausing to think before continuing "It's safe to say any Fae would know what you were. As for other species, I cannot say. You've been a whispered legend for over a millennium, there's literature, as I said, but some think it's a fairytale. The vampires have had quite some time to think about how and what they will do with you; their wanting you isn't exactly a secret. The vampire king contacted me, asking for the Fae's legends about you." "The vampire k
I'm quite violently woken up by a familiar voice yelling at me and then jumping on top of me. It takes me a minute before realization dawns on me, and then I squeal."What are you doing here?! How?!" I yell as I push Sophie off of me, sit up, and then tackle her again in another hug"Your grumpy Alpha asked me to come a couple days ago. Oh, by the way, he definitely thinks I'm an idiot. I blubbered the whole way up the stairs. I don't know how you're not scared of him; he's much more intimidating in person. Which is saying something because the idea of him was already pretty freaking scary." she says"I've told you a million times he's a softie, and I probably put him in a bad mood because I may or may not have thrown a hissy fit before I came up here," I say and cringe at my earlier behavior."Girl, what did you do?" Sophie says, rolling her eyes and lying beside me on Roman's side. I stifle a growl that she is laying in my mate's scent. She rolls her eyes and punches my shoulder.
I want to stand up, but I know my knees will wobble. So I stay sitting, focusing on my mate's and Sophie's touch to keep me grounded. Roman must mindlink everyone except Seth and Sophie to leave because everyone gets up and quickly evacuates the living room. Honestly, I barely notice. I'm still staring at the man I'm supposed to call Dad and trying not to fall into the abyss of my emotions while I do so. "I…" I start to say but trail off, not really knowing where I am going with it, but I feel like I need to speak. I didn't expect it to be this emotional, ignorantly, I guess. In the abstract, it was much easier to think about him. But with him, my father, standing here in front of me, reminding me that I have a parent who's alive, is bringing up so many feelings. Stupid, stupid feelings. I don't know a damn thing about him. He could be a sadist, he could be a homophobe, he could hate women. I mean, he's the demon overlord from the underworld; he probably has some seriously sadisti
In all honesty, the rest of the night was fun. After I introduced everyone, who thankfully already were briefed on the circumstances, my father didn't contribute a whole lot of conversation. He was just observing, and if roles were reversed, I would have stayed quiet too. He did talk here and there, though, not enough for me to learn much about him. Nonetheless, I felt lighter having him there. I guess I didn't realize I expected him to be nothing short of a monster. I had just shown Sophie and my father to their rooms, and now Roman and I were walking up to ours. "So today was certainly…a day," he says "Today was the equivalent of four days," I sigh "How are you doing, feeling?" he says, taking my hand in his and kissing my knuckles; I smiled despite what was about to come out of my mouth. “I'm just trying to process it. It's not like it was a shock that he showed up; I'm just surprised I was so emotional over it, you know? I didn't really expect to feel any type of connection
"I don't believe you," I said to my father sadly. "I have a feeling we're underestimating the vampires. I don't know anything at all about angels. But I just have a horrible feeling about the vampires," I tell him, looking down at my coffee and trying to find comfort in its aroma, but not even that beautiful smell could ease my anxiety. He visibly stiffened, and that made me feel even worse. "I believe you," he said, grabbing my hand before continuing, "One of your gifts is intuition. We will take their threat seriously." "How do you know that?" I asked him, I knew he had the last 20 years to prepare for this, but my mom said nothing was known of my powers "I resummoned Deumos a couple years ago. After years of researching myself and the elders, to no avail, I swallowed my pride. It seems she has her own agenda, that or she's just bored because she fully prepared me for everything you would be. I did considerable research on the tribrid, the elders did as well, and we got nothing
"This is a power I've wielded several times before; take a second and look at him, let the tether to your magic loosen, and then will it to surround him with protection," my father says as I stare at Seth, trying to put a shield around him to let him into the Underworld. I do as he says, and when my power reaches Seth, I see him stiffen for a second but relax as it surrounds him entirely. I can actually see it around him, like a light haze. I smile, completely unrestrained, as I realize it worked! My eyes dart to Roman's for a beat, noticing the pride and softness in his gaze. 'I love that smile on you,' he says through the link, and I look away; I'm probably blushing like a freaking preteen."Good. Now do that to everyone else here, except for your mate," my father says "Maybe try and look a little less like you're constipated this time, though." Seth teases me, I shoot him a glare, and he yelps. I jump, not expecting that. "Goddess, Amara. Are you going to do that every time I