I marked my web page and closed the guide I used to be studying, fixing my full consideration on Haley. My abdomen had been knotted since I stated I needed to learn the prophecy on her again, however for a second all I felt was boiling, insistent lust as I watched my mate method. A superb sheen of sweat coated her pores and skin, her inked arms bared by a sleeveless black shirt, the superb muscle in her biceps making my cock leap to life in my pants. The messy ponytail and the free, assured approach she walked definitely did not damage. I needed her to climb onto my lap and experience me to ruination. Needed her to personal me, wreck me. A part of me was nonetheless feral, a really huge a part of me nonetheless damaged; I’d simply pulled the jagged items again collectively and taped them in place. I used to be nonetheless within the bathe in Edinburgh, empty and terrified to lose her once more.

However the nervousness in Haley’s expression cleared my head—even when it did not fairly deter my dick—and when she bit her lip, the gravity settled again onto my shoulders.

“Aren’t I strolling to the gallows?” she laughed tightly, perching her superb ass on the sting of the desk. I used to be distracted for a second by tracing my palms up her thighs, however I batted the necessity again when she spoke. “This prophecy in all probability says how I will die—ideally in a blaze of blood and glory, however in all probability doing one thing dumb like making an attempt to stab a titan in his huge toe.”

My lips twitched right into a smile, and I met her gaze, holding eye contact. “It will be alright.”

Her little snigger disagreed with me; she regarded away. “Good place, this. Very cosy. I just like the amber lighting—and that heavy oak actually warms up the place.”

“Haley,” I murmured, squeezing her hips.

“Em’s all the time needed a library. It is a step up from the three cluttered bookshelves we had in our final house.” Not the secure home in Edinburgh—the home the place we would lived for years, the place we would felt secure. Till Wynvail burned it down. Traitorous, villainous, heinous— “Why are you all of the sudden murderous, Malakai?”

I blinked innocently. “Simply eager about Cronus.”

She bit her lip once more; I rolled it free with my thumb, stroking the dent she’d made.

“I used to be glad, you recognize?” she blurted, assembly my eyes with one thing near panic. I slid my fingers into her pink hair and cradled the again of her head, understanding it comforted her. “Once I could not learn it, after I came upon it was written within the outdated language. Then, I by no means needed to discover out what the prophecy stated.”

“Besides you have got a mate who can learn it,” I murmured, stroking her scalp with the pad of my thumb. “No matter it says, it adjustments nothing. You are not a slave to destiny, my rose. This solely foretells what you select to do. That is how destinies work.”

She scoffed. “Phoebe made it sound like we will not combat it. Like destiny’s going to seize my physique and pilot me like a puppet.”

“That is not going to occur,” I stated firmly, although I really had no thought how destiny labored. Destiny was the rationale Haley was my mate, and I would not change this bond for something in any world, however even when we would hated one another, would Destiny have pushed us collectively and given us no selection? I made a decision I did not care. She was mine, and overthinking it might simply make my head explode. I had sufficient worries with out including one other. “I imply it, Haley, this adjustments nothing. No matter it says, you are still a badass lady with a loopy streak, a large coronary heart, and a killer ass.”

“Thanks,” she drawled, however she was smiling.

“And you’ve got your mates beside you,” I added. “At all times. It isn’t your prophecy, my rose; it is ours.”

Her pale throat bobbed. “Fantastic. Let’s get it over with.”

She hopped off the desk and pulled her sweaty shirt over her head, peeling off her bra subsequent.

“I might bend you over this desk and fuck you till you scream,” I identified.

“Or you possibly can learn the prophecy of my guaranteed-to-be-grizzly dying.”

Proper. A bucket of metaphorical ice dumped over me. “Flip round, my rose. And don’t fret.” I rose from my seat and moved nearer, dropping an extended kiss in your shoulder. “I am proper right here. I’ve bought you.”

She nodded, a tremor going by way of the tether between us. I kissed her different shoulder for good measure and stepped again, steeling myself earlier than I started to learn. I might solely glimpsed a single line earlier than—what’s made may be unmade—and instantly regarded away. If this did communicate of her dying, I would not have the ability to deal with it. I could not lose her once more. She was my total goddamn world, and I did not need something to do with a universe with out my—

“Kai,” she stated urgently. “Inform me.”

I shook my head to knock some sense into my mind and commenced to learn the darkish phrases inked lovingly down her backbone. My abdomen twisted into a decent knot the extra I learn.

“What’s lifeless can dwell anew

When bonds are shattered, love runs true

Kin is discovered and misplaced as soon as extra

A titan’s dying brings closing warfare

What’s made may be unmade

At Olympus, steep value is paid

Sacrifices, thefts, and presents bestowed

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