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I couldn’t take that chance again.
It was best if I answered her questions.
“You know that each life you have died before your twenty-first birthday,” I said, giving Lacey a little more information about her past.
“Clay told me,” she said, and her eyes widened. The amber pulsed like molten gold. “He said I’d find the reason hard to hear, but you’ve already alluded to it. Just get it out of the way and tell me everything.”
I dipped my head and bit down on the corner of my bottom lip.
How did I tell her that her fated mate killed her in each life? The man who loved her, looked after and cherished her. But his inability to share her led them to this time and place.
“You’ll probably will find some of it hard to hear,” I said, and I knew I should have told her more. I was no better than everyone else in her life, keeping secrets from her, telling lies as though she had no right to know.
“And it seems strange that it is before I’m twenty-one and happened in each life and in this life I’m going to feel the dark king’s mate bond when I’m twenty-one,” she said and looked at me. “That isn’t a coincidence, is it?”
I shook my head.
“Clay said it isn't the dark king that kills me,” she stated, and narrowed her eyes and shook her head. “I suppose it makes no sense if we were fated. He would be mine and me his once we reached twenty-one.”
“It isn't the dark king who kills you,” I said, feeling more nervous than any other time in any of my lives. “Though his presence doesn’t help.”
Lacey’s eyes widened as she stared at me. “You said I agreed to die?” She pushed as though she already knew there was so much more than I was giving her.
I nodded. “I told you the gods sent Kane to protect you, to protect their lost goddess. It was to protect you from me,” I said. My eyes flitted around her face as her mouth dropped into a weary gasp.
“Seb... no... why?” she breathed.
“We agreed together, Lacey. This wasn’t just me deciding. You exiled yourself when you agreed to die. It was the only way out of the Upperworld for you,” I said.
Remembering the very first time. Seeing her tear-streaked face when she came from a meeting with the gods. Hearing her stricken voice when she described exactly what they planned for her.
She hadn’t planned it.
He planned it.
The god of speed.
In his wisdom, he promised to keep the goddess of light safe from the god of darkness. The gods wanted dark and light to be separated by as much distance as possible. The gods believed his darkness would eventually overpower her light, plunging the three worlds into a permanent dimness.
The god of speed proved his worth by creating longer lighter days in the northern hemisphere in her honour and the gods called it Summer. The god of darkness countered with a dreary, shorter days later in the year, and he called it Winter.
It wasn’t the only battle.
But none of those battles were that hard on Lacey, not until the gods announced her forthcoming marriage to the god of speed. And like I said, her face that day made my heart bleed, but more than anything else, it made my blood rage.
“I told you we planned it because I was being banished. When in reality you actually planned it so you could escape the Upperworld.” I said.
“Why were you being banished?” she asked.
“The god of speed wanted me gone,” I said. “I told you I knew a way we could escape from the Upperworld, and we made a rash decision to do it.”
“How did we do it?” she asked.
“Does it matter?”
She nodded. “It appears it is the only way I die, so I’d like to know what it is.”
I nodded.
