told him,
“Amelia didn’t know how to tell you and feared your reaction, and all things considered, I think she had a right to that, despite how I argued her decision… along with that of your wife’s, I may add,” I confessed making him bark,
“You should have fucking told me!”
“Yes, well I didn’t! No, instead I went against my own wishes and was forced to watch as my Chosen One acted as if I meant little to her and allowed everyone to believe I had no rights to my claim,” I bit back angrily, letting him know the toll which this had taken on me.
“A claim I still dispute, I will add!” he said making me growl,
“Dispute it all you want, Dom, but as you know the Fates cannot be denied, nor can they lie, which is why Keira knows and has for some time.”
“How long?” he asked quickly.
“That is not my place and you fucking know it!” I told him in return, as the very last place I wanted to be right then was between a married couple who unfortunately happened to be the ones who birthed my Electus! Talk about fucked up!
“The least you can do is give me that!” he argued.
“I don’t owe you shit, Dom! For the way I see it, if you had been the type of father and husband that had made it easier for the two women in your life to speak freely of the truth, doing so without them knowing for certain what your reaction would be, then none of this would have fucking happened!” I said giving him a bit of fucking reality.
“You’re blaming me for this!?” I shook my head and sighed before telling him,
“Look, I was never fucking expecting a pat on the back and a welcome to the family, Dom, but seeing as you tried to rearrange my face, then yeah, I am blaming you for being their reason to keep this a fucking secret in the first place!” Dom thought on this before nearly destroying the wheel, being forced to ease his grip before he did.
“How long, Luc?”
“Does it fucking matter?” I asked making him shoot me a twisted look of betrayal before he snarled,
“How long has my wife known?”
“And I told you to ask…”
“It is the fucking least you could give me!” he interrupted and in that moment I decided instead of telling him to go fuck himself like I wanted to, I gave him what he asked, seeing as it was the lesser of two evils.
“My understanding is that she has known longer than even I have.”
“Lucius,” he said my name in warning before gritting out again,
“I asked how long?”
“Since the day she was born,” I told him making him curse,
“Fuck!”
“And she kept it from me…all this fucking time!”
“Yes, and ask yourself why that is, old friend,” I said rolling my eyes and looking out the window taking note that we were at least getting there a lot quicker than we had done when first arriving.
“Oh, I know why, because I would have done everything in my fucking power to keep you from her, that’s why!” he admitted with ease.
“Exactly and in doing so you would have also been committing the biggest sin as a King that you could, which is fucking with the Fates’ plan…or are you forgetting the last time you tried to fight destiny in regard to your own wife? Something that, if I recall, had you been successful at then Amelia wouldn’t have even been born!” I said reminding him of his past and making him frown in frustration.
“And since when did you become so willing to accept the Fates’ plans, huh? Only if memory serves, Luc, you have spent a great deal longer singing a very different fucking tune these past few thousand years.” I gritted my teeth against the reminder of my own past and threw my own point back at him, being the next one to lash out in this verbal battle of ours.
“Yeah, well, you wanna know what happened?”
“Divine intervention?” he asked sarcastically.
“Your daughter happened, Dom, that’s what!” I said making him growl my way, which I ignored and continued,
“But hey, lucky for you when you met your Chosen One you didn’t have anyone but your own self getting in the way or holding you back.”
“Oh no, I think I recall having someone in my way, Luc, or are you forgetting the Triple Goddess where my wife nearly lost her life too.” I shook my head at his