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“Severi is mine. Do not hurt or refuse him. Find Onyx before he ends up dead.”
Neither one of my parents had pulled me out, and they were screaming at each other: “Enough! I don’t care what he said. We need to teach her! That Vian fucker is wrong!”
“Gwen!” I hear a voice through the buzzing in my mind. The sand moves at my feet, and Hollis grabs my face, not rough but firm. “You’re here, you’re safe, you’re not in the water. I don’t know what it is about the water and you, but I can see you’re terrified. Tell me—” “I’ll show you and I want to hear your heart break,” my Nexus speaks from my lips. “No,” I scream, but it’s too late.
“We are death,” she whispers. “We are death. We are death.” I shiver. “We are not. You are.” She smiles, her teeth sharp. “You’re not ready for what I am, Gwenieve. Soon, you will be. I want you to be safe and alive.”
The Morrigan was a messenger from the Gods…but Vian Gods. I believe they are watching you, too.”
“I swear it on my Vian soul.” He touches his chest. “How do I even know that is a thing?” I roll my eyes. “I would have thought your mother told you, but ah, she was a liar, too.” What the fuck is he talking about? “We treasure our souls and our mates. Those two things are single-handedly the only things we care about. You can trust that if I swear on it, it’s real. I’d swear on you too, but that’s a little too risky for my liking.
I don’t want to be alone. I knew it the second my parents died and I was truly alone for the first time.” “You were never alone,” he whispers, like it’s a secret between us. Our mating is just that—a secret, one that would get me killed.
The first child born to our great five Gods was a very powerful bird shifter. He had the power to make runes, and it is the first recorded use of runes in our history.”
A Nexus with a breeding kink and five, kinda six, mates? Hell fucking no.
“Did you know when a Nexus is ripped from our souls that they don’t actually leave and it’s what kills us in the end? Our Nexus claws into our souls, holds on with everything they have, and we don’t let go either. We are one being, and the sad truth is, we cannot be parted from each other.”
“I want you to know, while we’re alone this one last time, everything I did was to keep you safe. I never expected to find a mate and not for it to be you. Not everything was a lie, but you’re going to hate me, anyway. Don’t bother reaching for your Nexus; I’ve been drugging your food for months to make her distant.”
“You didn’t kill, Georgina did.” He turns me from the lights and cups my face. “And they’ll keep killing with you. You need to go. Go and have a life with Finnegan. You’ll also find Alek and Onyx. I’ve sent word on where to meet you. You can never trust Hollis and Rhodes, do you understand? They are hundreds of years old and my father’s most trusted commanders.”
I fall to my knees as my heart stops and a voice echoes in my mind. “You are my weapon, and I am your God. Bow to me, Onyx Nieminen, for I am the God of Crimson. I claim you.”
