Page 78 of Secrets & Curses of Fate

“I told him who I was, and he said he knew I was coming.” Brim chuckled. “He said he called for me to come to him. Do you know how rare that is? Do you know how odd it is not to realize that Haden summoned me to him? I thought it was my own choice.”?

Yes, I did know how rare that was.?But I was more concerned about how Brim did not notice he was being summoned. Brim was more powerful than anyone else I had met. He should have known.

“He told me that I had come up in a vision of his future, and he wanted to know if I knew of it.”?

“Did he tell you what it was?”?

“Yes.” Brim frowned when he looked at me. “First, he told me that he had visions of a woman so beautiful that he knew she was some sort of angel.”?

I stared at him, confused. Haden had visions of me a year before we met in his last life. He had never told me.

“He told me your name, and I could not believe it. I was so happy when I heard him say it was you.” Brim smiled fondly. “He told me that he knew you were fated to Holden, but he didn’t care because he had visions that you would love him instead.”?

Tears stung my eyes and fell down my face. He knew before I ever told him. Why did he act so upset?

“He asked me how to change fate.” Brim looked up at me. “I can’t express to you how important this next part is, Della.”?

I nodded and listened carefully.

“I told him we couldn’t, and he argued with me about it. He said he knew it could be changed because he saw…” Brim looked at me. “Haden saw himself as a god in the future.”?

I looked at Brim, confused.?

“He will be a god when we finish the mating process. That is nothing spectacular.”?

“You don’t understand.” Brim stood up. “That was impossible in his last life. He could not become a god unless he mated with you, which was impossible because you were linked to Holden by your bond. And then he told me… You can’t get mad, Della. You have to swear that to me.”

“I will decide my level of anger after you tell me.”

“Haden figured out he was going to die. He knew it was going to happen before it did.”

My heart felt like it was falling down a bottomless pit. I didn’t want to accept that. How could he have known? How could he have not told me? He knew I could save him.

“That makes no sense.”

“He thought if you two loved each other enough, the bond would transfer all by itself over time. But of course, it didn’t because that is not how it works. When he came to me, he said he thought he could change fate, but he did not tell me why or how.”

“What are you saying?”

“Della, he knew he needed to die.”

“Needed? Why would he need to die?”

"He had a vision of you physically breaking your bond to Holden in a moment of rage. He saw you slam it into his chest in an attempt to attach your soul to his. He knew everything that was going to happen.”

“No…”

“I begged him to tell you, but he said no, and that it needed to be your own choice to make that attempt.”

“Why didn’t you tell me any of this?” I asked. “I could have saved him. How long did he know he was going to die?”

Brim's face fell. "The day before he died. He was having visions and called to me. When I got to the house, he was a mess."

My mind immediately went to Haden being so fucking sad when I came home that night. I closed my eyes tightly at the realization that he was sad because he would die the next day. ?

“Della, you still aren’t understanding.” He took a step towards me and put his hands on my shoulders, looking into my eyes to stress the importance of what he was going to say next. I did not know if I could handle any more news, though. “Haden was having visions of his next life.” He gave me a small shake and then stepped back again. “No one, and I mean no one, can do that. Not even a god can see that far into the future. Even me, the best seer in the realm, can only see into the future to an extent. And even then, it is choppy at best. Haden knew the details of his future to such a degree that he could have written a godsdamn book with every major and minor detail that was supposed to happen. That is not normal.”

My mind was a whirlwind of thoughts. Haden had known he was going to die and wouldn’t let me save him. Because he knew he would be mine in his next life. Anger and confusion pumped through me.

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