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“Do you listen in on her thoughts?” I asked.
“No, her fears. It currently unsettles her that Seb will die during the bind.”
“Will he?”
“Not if he is one of her fated ones. They can’t die,” he said.
“He is,” I said and Clay nodded. “Did you always know she had fated mates?”
“We did, but we didn’t know who they were. We were expecting a sign, a marking of some sort, but those marking never showed.”
“But I don’t remember Ryan or Carter,” I said.
“Carter isn’t and I can confirm that now they’ve bound, but he isn’t a concern right now. I need to remove the knight bind unless she is prepared to fight the dark king.”
“She is talking about fighting him and that’s why she is binding to Seb, Ryan, and then Blake. Carter has promised to help her the day it happens,” I said.
Clay smiled. “Yes, Carter and I have had the discussion. Considering he now knows of the mate bonds, him choosing that is very noble of him, I have to say.”
“Could Ryan be a new fated mated? If he is a new mate, she might not feel the bond as strongly as she would mine.” I hesitated for a moment and narrowed my eyes at Clay. “Or are you saying he could be the dark king?”
“I’ve made some mistakes myself Kane, I should have trusted my instincts, but they pushed me toward Lacey taking magic with little thought to her fated mates,” Clay said. “And as I now know, the dark king will do whatever it takes. This is no longer about her gaining magic. I realise that after what Carter is going through that Lacey needs the love of her fated mates to stop the dark king.”
Clay walked back to his desk, his placed his elbows on the table, tented his fingers and stared at me. “When is she considering Ryan as a bind?”
“Quick, I think. It shook her up when the vampire king kidnapped her and also when she the fae king tricked her. But she is worried that the spell to prevent feeling the mate bond with the dark king is weakening.”
“If that is the case, Kane, she should feel Ryan more, but if she isn’t and you don’t remember him, then you need to convince Lacey to not bind with him.”
“But she can meet a new fated mate in a new life. It happened with Blake. Ryan might be a new mate,” I said it and almost kicked myself. Ryan was already in our knight group of men, but if the gods hadn’t fated him to Lacey when she felt all her mate bonds, I wasn’t sure how that would affect Ryan.
“I’ll have the conversation with her, but Lacey and Ryan are very close. I don’t think I will convince her he is not a new mate bond.”
Clay rubbed his fingertips over his temples. “But as he also takes her pain, binding could be lethal for him.”
“I’m sure Ryan is already aware of that,” I said and hesitated. “But there is something else.” Aria stirred, and I checked on her first, knowing she was ready for a feed soon. I strolled back to Clay. “I overheard Ryan talking to Lacey, and he insinuated Carter could be the dark king and he has a strange obsession with binding,” I said.
Clay shook his head. “If Carter was the dark king, binding with him would have broken the spell.”
I smiled. “That’s what Lacey said to Ryan, but he said she didn’t know what the dark king was capable of.”
Clay glanced down to the floor, considering the words as I knew he would. He was a reasoner, and like Lacey, who sometimes was an over thinker, but nevertheless, she analysed everything thoroughly. She wasn’t one to drop something once she had the seeds.
Clay was the same.
“Maybe Ryan shouldn’t bind,” he said and sighed. “Convince Lacey not to go through with binding to Ryan. I have a bad feeling about it. I thought it was only because of the pain he takes but maybe the gut feeling I have is more than that.”
Chapter 25
Seb
“Beforewebind,Iwant to be totally honest with you about everything,” I said. I was bloody stupid, to be this honest, when I was so close to binding with my fated mate. She would have every reason and every right to deny me. But I wanted her to bind with full knowledge of everything we had, everything that made our past and everything that we chose together.
Because it wasn’t only me that decided when we died, Lacey did, too. Lacey wanted the same as me. She wanted to fight the dark king. Because it did not differ from her being hunted by the god of speed or trickery. Which, if the god of speed truly was the king of the faes, the trickery part was certainly apt.
Lacey inhaled a large breath. “Am I going to hate what you’re about to say?”
“You might already remember,” I said. I also wanted to be honest because I knew Kane now remembered. He’d went toe to toe with me on over one occasion, one time when Lacey left us because of Gray Trent and the Elysium Ball, and everything escalated from that.
