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I look up, my heart shattering as I see that Trey and Jerrick have left.
“No!” I sob and take a step towards the door.
“I’ll go,” Rath says. “I can take the backlash better than you can right now.”
He disappears as I growl at him. I don’t need him to protect me from my own men.
“Let him go,” Theo says. “Trey will calm down soon enough, and you know what a brooder Jerrick is.”
I stifle my giggle and look at Rook. His face is grim.
“What is it?” I ask, sobering up quickly.
“I said I would give him time to speak to you, but I can’t sit on this any longer. Not now that he is being a dick over you keeping this a secret.”
“What are you saying?” I gulp.
“He’s keeping one of his own,” Rook says, “And you aren’t going to like it.”
“Tell me,” I whisper and wait for the rest of my day to crumble into tiny pieces.
Chapter 13
Jerrick
My focus is completely on the training pole, hitting it precisely and with great force with the bo staff that I’ve got in a death grip.
If I don’t get rid of some of this anger and guilt, then I’m going to snap. I feel sick to my stomach about keeping a secret from Savvie now. Knowing how it feels when the shoe is on the other foot has made me see sense. I will have to tell her about Letisha the next time I see her. My anger athersecret rears up and I hit the training pole with such force the bo staff breaks in two. So, I pick up the other half and beat the shit out of the pole with both broken pieces.
Sensing Savvie lurking, I don’t stop until I am completely free from anger.
“Feel better?” she asks as I drop the staffs to the ground.
“Little bit,” I admit.
Her eyes rove over my body. I’d removed my shirt before training, and I’m now sweating and tempting her. I canfeelit coming off her in waves. I hide my smile.
She finds my eyes again, and they cloud over. I know instantly that Rook ratted me out.
“Before we talk about whatever it is you’ve been hiding, can we talk about my revelation?” she ventures.
I pause.Whatever it is you’ve been hiding.She doesn’t know. She only knows that Iamhiding something. That means I can still get out in front of this. Rook didn’t spill the beans.
“Jerrick?” she presses as I stay silent.
“What is there to say?” I reply with a shrug. “You can’t change who you were meant to be, and even if you could, I wouldn’t want that. I love you for who you are, not what you are.”
She beams, but then she presses her lips together. “What about me and Rath?”
I look down and sigh. “You are different sides of the same coin. It’s hard to refute that you are truly destined, and I meandestinedby the Fates. It’s not just that you think you are meant to be together; youaremeant to be together. I worry now about how that will change the dynamic of our circle.”
“It won’t!” she says adamantly. “I will not allow it. Yes, Rath and I are destined, but I honestly believe that you and I are. You are fifteen hundred years old, Jerrick and yet you have never married, never been with anyone that you wanted that with. Then you and I meet, and you fall in love with me, you will marryme. You can’t say that isn’t destiny as well. Same with the others. We are all meant to be.”
I nod slowly. I hear what she’s saying, and I want to believe her, but deep down, I’m just not so sure it won’t affect everything that we have.
“You don’t believe me?” she asks, a bit of fire in her tone.
It makes me chuckle. “Oh, I believe you, Princess,” I say, telling her what she wants to hear so that she will smile. I draw her to me and give her a tight squeeze before I let her go.
