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No, I wouldn’t beg. I’d wait for him to explain to me.
Seb lifted his hand and ran his index finger over my cheek. “It was always me and you,” he explained. There was a thrill that run through me. My skin tingled at his touch as his finger nonchalantly but softly chased down my cheek.
My sigh tethered as his finger stopped on my bottom lip, causing my eyelashes to flutter with agitated intensity, and I was certain my mouth trembled from his contact.
“Right at the very outset, I was yours. Although the gods discovered us and didn’t wish for us to be together,” he spoke. His eyes meandering around my face.
“Carry on speaking, Seb.” Blake pressed. “And hurry it up.”
“I was your guardian, but we became secret lovers.” Seb added, and the skin around my eyes tightened in response.
I shrugged my shoulders. “Secret lovers. And Kane, he was there because I feel that’s the situation.”
“Kane was another of your guardians,” Seb replied. “He wanted you, but understood he had to stay away from you. Where Kane accepted the warning. I didn’t. Same as this life, at least in the beginning, Lacey.”
“And Carter, Ryan and Jack, how do they fit into the story?” I asked.
“Carter and Ryan weren’t there, and Jack is a sore loser. Gave up on you surprisingly easily,” Seb answered.
“A bit like this life,” Blake added. “He is too used to getting his own way.”
I dipped my head to Blake. “And you? What is your tale?”
“I wasn’t in your original life. The gods sent me to you on your second resurrection,” he said.
I nodded to Blake and turned my face back to Seb. “So you and Kane were my guardians? Why did I have guardians?” I asked.
“All gods and goddesses have guardians,” Seb murmured, struggling to keep his tone steady.
“I literally was a goddess,” I replied with an almost pant to my statement.
He acknowledged my statement with a bow of his head. “And you were getting ready to wed the god of speed.”
“Speed,” I mumbled.
“And trickery,” Blake interjected.
“Gray Trent?” I gasped as I recalled he mentioned someone took me away from him. “Or are you speaking of the dark king?”
“I’m uncertain of the dark king and the god of speed,” Seb answered. “The dark king was strangely silent in that life, so he might be the god of speed. And concerning Gray Trent. You were never his, and I don't know why he thinks the gods fated him to be with you. It is probably a lie. Anyway, everyone is wrong because you were always mine.”
“Unless the dark king is Gray Trent,” I said. “He has been quiet lately.”
“Lacey, I haven’t told you everything.”
I blew out a gasp because I knew already without him saying another word that whatever was about to leave his mouth was going to hurt me or shock me. I nodded. “Go on.”
Seb’s tongue swiped across his bottom lip before he pulled the middle of his lip into his teeth and chewed. His eyes lowered as he looked at me.
“You’re not just any goddess, Lacey. The day you left you became the lost goddess, because when the gods banished you to a life in the Middleworld,” he said and raised his palms in the air. “Earth... You disappeared for hundreds of years and you became the most valuable God. The kings found out about you. Finally, there was a veritable goddess in the Middleworld and not one to wonder over from the Upperworld.”
“But why, if Gray Trent is a secret god and then the dark king is really a god, why am I so valuable?”
“Because you are a goddess, Lacey. The gods are here because of you and they still want their goddess,” Blake said.
“Did the gods you are talking about follow me from the Upperworld into the Middleworld,” I said, puffing out my cheeks as I contemplated everything that was being said to me.
“I’m convinced one of those gods made his road to the Lowerworld,” Seb said, raising his eyes.
