Chapter Twenty-Two
There’s no sign of life on the deserted highway as we race through central Georgia. “Where is everyone?”
“Right?” Raven sits forward. “There are no humans around anywhere. It’s weird.”
“Yeah, I wonder if this has anything to do with the travelers and Hermes?” I ask.
“I’m guessing that anything weird happening outside the academy is going to be because of Hermes at this point,” Jayden says.
“True. It usually does have to do with the gods running amok.” I shrug.
“Should we take a different route? What if this stretch of road leads to another realm?” Raven asks.
“Everyone have their pins?”
“Of course. I’m not dumb enough to lose something given to me by a god,” Jayden says.
Everyone in the vehicle voices their agreement. We are safe from ending up in another realm this time. I just hope wherever this has led the humans who traveled this road is better than ending up in the fae realm.
“Then I think we can mark ourselves safe from inter realm travel for today,” I joke.
“What about the humans, though?” Kira asks.
“Hopefully, Hermes can get them all back safely and there will be something he can do to wipe the experience from their memories.” I tilt my head back against the seat.
Will it really matter with the new world order coming? Everyone seems to have their own parts to play and we’re the catalyst to it all. That’s not giving me the warm and fuzzies at all.
“What did Aggie mean bywe will know who they belong to, Kira?” Raven asks with a devious grin.
“I don’t know. I hope it doesn’t mean that I have more than three mates.” She blows a strand of her hair out of her face.
“What?” Draven asks.
“Why is this the first time we’re hearing about this?” Dax narrows his eyes on her.
“I was more focused on the surviving part rather than her saying a confusing pronoun.” Kira throws her hands up.
“Surviving what?” Draven asks and glares at the back of Adrian’s head.
Adrian has been awfully quiet in this conversation. His head is turned to the window, watching the scenery go by or hoping no one remembers he’s there. Good luck with that, my friend.
“The war,” Kira whispers. “She told me if I survive on the right side of fate, they will know who they belong to when I was asking about Olly.”
“They?” Dax says. “As in more than one.”
“We don’t know who she was talking about. Maybe she was lumping together Olly and Annie since he’s gone helping keep the tiny seer safe,” I say.
“It doesn’t matter. If it’s fate, it’s fate and we can’t fight that.” Draven rubs his forehead, probably having phantom pains since she bopped him yesterday.
“Fight against Aggie?” Dax gasps. “I’m a son of Ares and wouldn’t even think about doing that. I don’t care how many mates you have as long as I’m one of them.”
Adrian flinches almost imperceptibly but I catch it. What possible futures did he see? My friends can’t die. I won’t allow it.
“Awww, the big dumb idiot is learning,” Raven says, clutching her hands over her heart.
“That was super sweet, Dax,” I say.
I lock gazes with Adrian and raise an eyebrow in the universal sign that we’ll be talking about that flinch later and he frowns. He already knows what’s coming. I need to know how to make sure my friends survive what’s to come. I can’t lose a single one of them. It will destroy me.
