Total pages in book: 96
Estimated words: 92232 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 461(@200wpm)___ 369(@250wpm)___ 307(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 92232 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 461(@200wpm)___ 369(@250wpm)___ 307(@300wpm)
My voice sounds strange to my own ears. Anger begins to fill me as I feel like I’ve been invaded. Before I can tell this woman to get out of my body, Kendrick speaks, shocking me.
“You can’t be here. This is not your time. This is my true mate. The one the gods have made for me.”
“I don’t care. You were mine first. She is carrying our child,” the woman screams.
Is she kidding me? I think back to what I watched. Oh my god, this woman has taken possession of my body and I’m pregnant?
“What have you done? I want you out. Take your child with you.
“I haven’t even known a man. This is insane. Get out.”
“I will not leave. Not until he hears me out. Not until I meet our son.”
“I. Said. Go.”
Power I’ve never felt before surges through me. As my anger flows through me, I force my way through her hold on me. An explosion happens within me and I black out again.
Kendrick
I catch Ray as she passes out. My anger with Venus is still boiling within. I also have rage building toward Candido Ricci. If I’m grasping all of this right, he intended to gain a son by marrying my mate off in order to keep the bond.
Ray is mine; she will never marry another, and our bond to the Ricci family will come to an end. I need more answers and I know just where to start.
“And who is this?” Bradan asks with a smirk on his lips as I find my brothers in the corridor as I make my way to the clubhouse.
“Ray Ann Ricci. Candido’s daughter. My mate.”
“Are you kidding me?” Ardan growls.
“Impossible,” Bradan breathes.
“I think I’ve been wrong about what was done in our temple all those centuries ago. There is a link between Ricci and whatever is going on.”
“How could a human be behind this?”
“That’s the thing, Bradan. I don’t believe they are, not entirely. There is help, but I need to know if my instincts are right.”
“What do you need us to do?” Ardan asks.
“We should begin to check in with the others. See what else the change Reilly felt has affected. Make sure the stones are still safe.”
“Should we just go and retrieve them?”
I shake my head. “I don’t want to throw off the balance.”
“Should I go to the seer?” Reilly asks.
“I will go to see her. You should look into the other names the gods have shown me.”
“What were those again?”
“Taylor, Billy, and Charlie.”
“I’m on it.”
“Your mate,” Bradan says and shakes his head. “Could this mean ours will appear?”
“I get the feeling that is an affirmative,” Reilly answers for me.
“What happened to her? Did you learn something in the room of revelation?” Ardan asks, nodding to Ray in my arms.
“Long story. I will tell you all. I’m taking her up to the clubhouse before I go to see Mabruk.
“She will remain here with me. She’s not to go back to Ricci.”
The room of revelation is below our properties, well underground, away from the humans. As we make our way through the underground caves, I stop at the entrance that leads upstairs to the clubhouse.
“Congratulations, brother. This is a good thing, no matter what? You feel me?” Bradan says.
“I feel you. It is.”
I keep to myself that she’s with child and my old lover seems to have taken up residence inside her. I need some answers first.
Answers
I roll into the seer’s territory on the back of my hog. Seers are not very trusting of other beings, so I’ve chosen to come alone. Mabruk is one of the ancient ones. Her ties go back to when my father and his siblings showed themselves.
She is older than me and my brothers. If anyone can connect the dots for me, it would be Mabruk. I swing my leg over my bike and saunter to the building she calls her home.
“I’ve been waiting for you.”
I look up and find Mabruk on her stoop watching me. Her dark hair is blowing in the light breeze, along with her red dress. Her eyes are glowing, telling me she’s seeing.
“Come with me,” she says as she turns to head into the building.
The first thing I notice when I enter is the scent of sage mixed with peppermint and orange. I duck to follow her into her den.
Taking a seat at her table, I then wait for her to settle and speak. I narrow my eyes as she pulls her cards. I’m not here for a reading and she knows it.
Those cards are for the curious and humans. I’m here for the real deal. I’ve known her for too long to believe she needs this crutch.
“I know what you are thinking, my king. I have seen things and I only want to clarify.”
“What I want to know will not come from those cards. Something has changed. My father is involved, isn’t he?”