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Seb sighed lightly against my cheek, holding me tighter than he ever had before. “It is. I’m not your enemy, Lacey. I’m the man you loved enough to leave the Upperworld for.”
“I chose that?” I asked.
“You did. You choose Kane too after the first life, then Blake wanted you for himself,” Seb said. “That’s when it got complicated.”
“Complicated,” I repeated.
“Blake needs to tell you his story when the time is right,” Seb said. “As does Kane.”
A throat cleared from the doorway. “Ryan is back,” Blake hissed. “I’ll slow him down, but be quick.” The door slammed behind him, and he put me on my feet and slowly transitioned back from being a naughty angel.
I giggled lightly at that.
It so suited Seb that he was a naughty angel. Of course he was. Because, if any of my knights would have that title, it would be him. Ryan had a naughty side to him, but Seb loved testing boundaries.
But I had no worries about him. He was a beautiful, but I now knew he was a fallen angel and not the dark king. His jaw wasn’t as sharp as the dark king’s, Seb’s eyes sockets wider to accommodate his large, deep brown eyes.
And I was glad, though equally, I wasn’t because Seb wanted this life to work desperately, and if he was the dark king, I was sure I’d be able to persuade him that the life we shared with all my knights worked.
“I don’t want to do it again. It gets harder and harder with each life. We have to make it work this time,” Seb said.
“The kings make that difficult,” I said.
“They are, and we need to deal with that, one at a time. We can handle them, Lacey, but first we need to flush out the dark king. We need to destroy him before he destroys everything we have.”
I nodded.
Chapter 23
Lacey
FindingoutexactlywhoSeb was, and everything changed. Things that people said to me now came back full circle and now made sense.
My life was suddenly making sense.
From the secrets Clay kept from me, to what he would do to hide everything about me. Including the faking of the deaths of my parents because he believed they were detrimental to me staying secret.
He knew.
Or did he? Did Clay know who my fated mates were?
He knew so much, including knowing the man I always knew as my father had made deals with the dark king. Some of those deals meant I should be with him now. And it was Clay who unravelled all the black magic that had somehow got entwined in the branches of the light of our kingdom.
His magic.
The dark king.
Magic he created at every turn but countered by Clay, who had tried to protect me my whole life.
And it was Clay I had to thank for having this last chance at happiness with my knights. Two more years I had before the mate bond would truly kick in.
Though I felt it.
I felt the bond the moment I kissed him.
And that was a worry. A worry that I would suddenly lose everything that was so good. And although I had this crazy, terrified feeling that everyone around me was not whom they seemed.
At least, sort of.
