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Khai's POV At precisely noon, they arrived exactly as Alfredo had suggested but what I find unusual is the fact that they had children, whom I had presumed were ready, with them. “What is this?” Theo hisses towards them and me simultaneously. One of the witches, a small girl that’s been alive for longer than once thought possible, turns his way. Her name is Penny, and she’s been around for more than one of Damian’s life cycles. She’s the one who started withdrawing children when she could, and I suppose without watching her do so, I would never have concluded that I needed to help. “It’s okay; he’s just wary. He’s worried about his pack.” “So he should be…” the other witch Sara whispers as she looks around us. Theo had Calley and Arlo go over to Lucas’s place, so the pack house was empty. Currently, it’s only me, Theo and his father on the property, but I can feel Lucas and Andy nearby. I presume for a just-incase moment. “Who are these?” I ask whilst taking a small toddler.
Lilith's POVMany influential people are sat around the dining room table dressed in expensive dresses and suits. Each with a face as straight as stone, and the atmosphere is rigid.Damian has me sitting beside him. His hand on my leg that's bouncing uncontrollably.I hate feeling him touch me, yet his touch is grounding. It's confounding, but I guess that's because I really don't want to upset him... yet.Many people have greeted me in passing, and I've not known many of them or their names, but one I do know is Leo.He's here sans Tabby, and he's dressed in an expensive slate suit. He takes the opportunity to come and say hello after Alpha Fredrickson, and his mate Luna Mina leaves us. He holds his hand out before him as he speaks."It's lovely to see you again," he greets Damian with a smile and a shake of his hand. Then he turns to me, and I panic. My heart racing, and my palms shaking.Will he show the hand I do not want to be known? Will he admit that we know one another?I look
Theo's POV Leo appeared in the yard late yesterday evening with Tabby unannounced. She was clinging to him with the small girl behind her, the same one that teleported them here last time. At first, I thought something was wrong, and I panicked, walking out to greet them, looking right at Tabby, expecting some sort of bad news. The news wasn’t bad, and it wasn’t good either, but it was news nonetheless. Leo explained that Damian was holding a dinner, one that I somehow hadn’t been invited to. I know that is a far cry to prove he doesn’t care that he has Lilith. I’ve been sitting on the very edge of my seat, wanting to trespass his borders to match my warriors to the bunkers Khai is adamant she is residing in. We could fight it out, assert our dominance and take our mate back, but Khai is refusing point blank to make any moves. Leaving us sitting ducks as to whether Lilith is Turkey okay or not. I’ve been relying on the mate bond these past few days, begging for the emotional
Theseus's POVIt's physically draining to keep myself invisible in this realm. I've never had a problem with practising this specific ability before, but I've been using it non-stop for a few days, so I'm tiring far sooner than I'd like.It's been aeons since I've walked among my people, or Celeste's, for that matter.There's the thing about being a god. Your life comes privileged and cursed.I've always said that we need to be with our people to know our people, but alas, gods are not known for being as one with their creations.It wasn't always this way for me. I once was a man like any of those around me now.I was a gifted witch with the ability to disappear and teleport.Apparently, my bloodline heritage had left me the inheritance of my kind.It would have been nice to know and have a heads-up that I would be left in charge of our kind for an eternity—stuck up there in the god realm watching over those who I create.That I would have needed to pledge my life to an eternity of s
Lilith's POV The evening had dragged past as I stood watching the women speak about everything and nothing and me... Everyone had noted the mark that evidentally sat on my neck, and I had wondered what exactly they had been interested in, why it was so magnificent to them. It wasn't until everyone had left and I was allowed to retire to my room, the one I have always stayed in... the one I showered that I had the chance to see what was so enthralling. I looked into the mirror, free of steam from the shower this time. My once burning purple mark was now a deep black trifecta. The mark makes a strange six-looped shape. Well, at least it isn't burning bright purple now... and saying that, as I look at myself, I notice my eyes, too, have changed back to my standard blue colour. I had gotten so used to seeing myself with purple-hued eyes that it must have escaped my notice this morning that they had indeed changed. I show again, letting the warmth of the water pelt my skin and
Lilith's POVThe evening had dragged past as I stood watching the women speak about everything and nothing and me...Everyone had noted the mark that evidentally sat on my neck, and I had wondered what exactly they had been interested in, why it was so magnificent to them. It wasn't until everyone had left and I was allowed to retire to my room, the one I have always stayed in... the one I showered that I had the chance to see what was so enthralling. I looked into the mirror, free of steam from the shower this time. My once burning purple mark was now a deep black trifecta. The mark makes a strange six-looped shape. Well, at least it isn't burning bright purple now... and saying that, as I look at myself, I notice my eyes, too, have changed back to my standard blue colour. I had gotten so used to seeing myself with purple-hued eyes that it must have escaped my notice this morning that they had indeed changed.I show again, letting the warmth of the water pelt my skin and rid the
Theo's POVTabby's laughing as she runs around with those kids Khai's friends arrive with, and I'm watching them.They are out in the yard, the four children running around to let off steam as Tabby and Arlo play tag with them as if they, too, were young children enjoying the right of passage of running freely."It's weird, watching children find happiness in the most mundane thing, isn't it?" My father asks me with one of those confident smiles that makes me want to make a witty remark back.I don't take my eyes off the children, but I do answer him after a long moment of thought and exercising control over my childish ways."Yes, father. It is hypnotising. What is it?""How do you know there is something? I might only want a small conversation about the orphan children we have within our pack now.""They aren't orphaned; we don't know that yet..." "Damian has habits, son. Those he steals from, he does so after murdering them. It's an unfortunate truth but a truth nevertheless."That
Lilith's POVI'm snapped right of the bedroom we were just in and into a garden as green as the eye can see.My feet hit the ground, and I fall off balance to the side as I try to catch my balance before I faceplate the floor. The man stands before me, his purple eyes glistening like the night sea as he watches me make a fool of myself."You're Theseus, aren't you?" I ask because he's strikingly similar to the man standing away from us when I met with Celeste, who didn't greet me even though he sought to look at me.My... father."Yes. I am Theseus." He rasps lowly at me as he looks around with wide, worried eyes.Is he waiting for someone?"Where are we? How did you materialise us here? What do you want from me..?""That's a lot of questions, kid. I've brought you here to teach you what you need differently. I cannot watch you suffer anymore.""You've been watching me? How?""The fountain of sight, child. Come, this way now. We mustn't have you seen up here," he summons me. We walk