the blood I share, not the blood that made me.” I released another sigh and pushed straight from the table so I could clasp a hand on my brother’s shoulder,
“I know, brother, but this way, what you didn’t know, you wouldn’t have been forced to lie about and no offence, my Šeš, but you’re a fucking shit liar.” He scoffed at this even as I laughed, a sound I hadn’t heard since my girl had been awake and in my arms. I let him go, giving him back his space so I could resume leaning my weight back on the desk.
“So, she was feisty for a reason then?” I raised a brow in question, making him add,
“Well, she would have to be to put up with your shit.” Now I was the one to scoff.
“She is as she should be and perfect at that,” I admitted unashamedly. He grinned at the same time his eyes grew wide with surprise.
“I think that’s the nicest thing I have ever heard come out of your mouth…fuck me, it must be love,” he muttered this last part to himself and I chose to ignore it. After this I told him everything that had happened regarding the threat against our people and the spreading infection of the Tree of Souls. Of course, it started with the box and the map leading all the way up until recent events, including Amelia’s Hex.
“Have you discovered yet where this summoning Hex is linked to?” he asked, making me grip the edge of the table in anger at the thought of the fucking thing still marring her skin.
“No, but I think it is easy to assume it is to wherever the fucking witch is, as she obviously needs her blood to access the Tree of Souls,” I told him only adding more strength to what I had already shared with him.
“And what of the Eye, does your Chosen One know where it is or how to get to it?” I found this an odd question so asked,
“Why would she?”
“Well, you used it to find her, so it is safe to assume it may start calling to her.” I frowned in response and found the next question coming from my lips a troubling one…
“How do you know I used the Eye?”
Chapter Seven
Power in Planning
My brother’s explanation to knowing that I had finally used the Eye was in his words, through the ‘power of deduction’. And as my brother also pointed out, there weren’t exactly lots of ways to know where the shifters had been going. Especially adding to this that speed was heavily of the essence. He also knew that if there was anything in the world to make me finally use the Eye, it would obviously be for my Chosen One’s safety. And of course, he had been right, I had. But now I worried for a different reason, asking him,
“You think I should have it moved in case she is affected?”
“I think you are safe, at least until she regains consciousness, but I have to ask, did the Eye show you anything more than just where she was being taken?” It was at this point that I decided not to say more, for what the Eye had shown me was my burden to bear, and no one else’s. Hell, but it was one of the reasons only a few people even knew the Eye existed beyond anything more than just a myth, let alone whose possession it was in.
I had not even trusted Dom with that bit of information. A decision that turned out for the best seeing as I knew, had he known at one time, he would have fought my armies of Hell just to get to it. Doing so in a desperate need to seek a glimpse of his Chosen One’s future and of course, how to prevent it. Something that in turn would have destroyed the world and all realms beyond it.
Making what the Eye had shown me an even more bitter wound which I was still figuratively bleeding from.
“No, it showed me nothing more,” I told him after a brief pause. Naturally, his gaze lingered a little longer telling me he wasn’t so sure he believed me. And well, considering all I had kept from him since turning up here, then it wasn’t as if I could blame him. Not when I had been cagey from the start.
But then he wasn’t the only one I had been keeping things from, as Amelia was