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"Huh?" He rubbed his eyes and looked at her in confusion. "Why are you kicking me?"
"I thought you were the duvet," Macey mumbled. "Now get off my legs, I need to kill a certain loch monster."
Cam cleared his throat. "Ehm, I'm sorry to be a spoilsport but you may want to put some clothes on first."
A moment later, Macey was back under the covers, hiding her naked body. Not from the guys. From herself. The universe.
"What would you do if you suddenly found out that your parents aren't your real parents?" she asked, her voice close to a whisper.
"Burn someone?" Flint suggested.
"Did you have a bad dream?" Cam asked, making Macey glare at him furiously.
"Don't patronise me! It wasn't a dream, it was real. I met Wardens, and one of them told me about... Nessie."
Jared tried putting a calming hand on her shoulders, but she shrugged him off.
"Want to tell us more about it?" he said gently, his voice full of incubus charm.
Macey sighed. Saying it aloud was going to make it more real.
"He said my late uncle is my father. Which means that - unless he slept with my mum which I highly doubt - that Nessie is my mother."
"What the..." Cam bit down a string of curses, before he took a deep breath and smoothed his expression. "You don't look like Nessie though."
"I don't look like my mum either. Nor like my dad. Nor like anyone in my family."
"But Nessie is old," Jared mused. "She shouldn't be able to have a child at that age."
Macey sighed. "Kelpies can have children for a lot longer than humans. Almost until they die, pretty much. So, it's definitely possible. But... no, it can't be true. Why would they lie to me? Why would she give me to her sister?"
Tears were running down her face before she even realised that she was crying. Three pairs of arms wrapped themselves around her and she breathed in the scent of her men. It was comforting and soothing. But she wasn't sure she wanted to be soothed right now. She wanted to be angry, and keep that anger burning until she got the chance to confront Nessie.
Her aunt? Her mother? Someone not related to her at all? Macey was beginning to doubt it all. She'd grown up as the third in line to the throne, but if she wasn't her father's daughter, she'd be in a completely different position. And her brothers... maybe they were actually her cousins? That at least would explain why they'd always been so different compared to her.
"Urghhhh!" she groaned, clutching her head in frustration. This couldn't be real. Maybe it was a dream after all?
"Take a deep breath," Jared said softly. "We'll work this out. How about you tell us what else they said?"
Macey noticed she hadn't actually told them all
the important bits. The ones that affected all the Wardens, not just herself.
She sighed. "You better get the others while I put on some clothes. We have a lot to discuss.
Izban and Amber both looked flushed and happy when they joined the other four. Macey hoped they'd actually got some sleep and hadn't just talked, kissed or done other things. They were all going to need their energy.
When they'd all settled down on the bed - which seemed to have grown since the last time she'd slept in it - Macey told them what had happened in her vision.
"You're sure it wasn't just a dream?" Izban asked but Amber elbowed him in the ribs.
"Sorry," he muttered and Amber gave Macey a cheeky smile. It was good to see that the beithir was dealing with Izban's grumpiness. Maybe he'd actually become bearable now that he had a girlfriend.
"That Warden didn't really seem to be all that useful," Cam observed. "We already knew that the Staran were disintegrating and that it would have terrible effects on everything. Maybe he expanded on how bad it really would be, but he didn't tell us anything about how to stop it, right?"
Macey shook her head. "No, he didn't have any advice. All he said was that now that all seven of us are together, we have a chance. And that the marks are important but we don't need them yet. So, I have time to get my missing ones."
She shot Izban a meaningful look. It was supposed to tell him that she expected him to come up with a solution that didn't involve him sleeping with her or attacking her. The mage seemed clever, so surely he could find a way.
