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Coen pulls me into a tight hug, “Deep breaths, Love. We won’t let you get taken.”

“I’ll behead anyone who tries,” River adds.

I glance over at him to see his expression is entirely serious, and a deadly gleam in his eyes. I know that it probably shouldn’t, but his threat settles the churning in my stomach and calms the storm in my mind.

He smiles as he steps closer and kisses me while I’m still in Coen’s arms. Neither of them seems to mind that I am.

“Right,” Evander starts, as we pull apart. “Someone order food. I managed to do a grocery shop this morning, and it’s being delivered tomorrow,” Evander says. “And then I guess I’ll ring my parents and see when we can go over.”

Doc chuckles, “I love how you said that even though you know that they’re going to ask us to go over tomorrow.”

“Hell, they’ll probably ask for us to come over tonight,” Ransom chuckles.

Evander grins, “Yeah, you’re probably right.”

“If you can put them off, could you see if we could go over for dinner tomorrow night?” Raiden asks.

“Yeah, of course,” Van agrees.

“Thanks, man. I want to see if we have any books on angels, and if I have some time, I would like to check out unicorns as well,” Raiden explains. “Out of all of the things that we need to look into, I think that those two are probably the ones that we know the least about.”

I grin, “Oh, I will definitely come and help. One, I’m still hoping that your books will talk to me eventually, and two, those are probably the things that I’m most excited to learn about.”

Raiden grins, “You know I’m always happy to have you study with me.”

Chapter Fifteen

Neith

We all carry on talking about less intense subjects, like deciding what we all want to eat, as Van leaves the room to talk to his parents.

Once that’s decided, River grins at me, “I believe that we promised you a tour of the house?”

“You guys still haven’t given her a tour?” Coen asks incredulously. Smirking, he adds, “You’re slacking, guys.”

Reed chuckles as he retorts, “Fuck off. There’s been a lot going on.”

“True,” Coen concedes.

I grin, “Come on, show me around.”

Doc grabs my hand and pulls me from the room, the others quickly following behind us.

Evander

Taking a seat in my office, I sigh.

I’m thirty-four years old, the leader of my own SID team, and now part of a Warrior Bonded team, and yet, making a very overdue phone call to my mother scares the shit out of me. She’s going to be panicking about the Choosing, even though she knows that we got through it fine, and she’s going to be mad that I haven’t called her sooner, and that she still hasn’t seen Neith yet.

I don’t think Neith realizes just how much they have missed her.

There’s a lot that we need to talk to them about, not just Neith’s parents, but also the whole King and Queen thing, which to be honest, thanks to everything that has happened recently, doesn’t really seem like such a big deal anymore. There are also things like the kelpies. My parents are the leaders of the water kingdom in Trieneliea, and so they have knowledge of a lot of water supes. We know that they were using the kelpies in the war in Trieneliea, which means that they most likely have a lot of information about them.

There are only a couple of things that I want to know, like why the whole herd is changing color, not just our kelpies, and why Neith can call on all of them, although I have a sneaking suspicion that those two things have something to do with each other.

I’m stalling.

I know that’s what I’m doing, and as I look down at my phone, another text comes in from my mom, and I know that I can’t put it off for much longer.

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