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“Eight? How’s that?” I asked.
“You didn’t count Apophis himself.”
“Shit, okay, eight. One to go. So we should—”
“There’s someone else missing,” Tory interrupted.
I looked across the table at her. “There is?”
“Yes, but... I don’t know his name,” she murmured, blushing slightly.
“Well, okay... Can you describe him? Maybe I’ve seen him around?” suggested Teddy.
She shook her head. “I don’t think he’s been around. I think he’s been missing for a long time.”
A cold, sick feeling settled in my stomach. No. There was no way she could have found out. We had all been sworn to complete secrecy, and none of my priests would betray an oath. I looked around at the rest of her priests, and they all looked like I felt—pale and sick.
“How... How do you know about this person?” Jack asked, his eyes resting on me. I shook my head slowly to let him know I hadn’t said anything.
“I... You’re going to think I’m crazy, but... I dreamed about him,” she answered, looking at the table.
I gave a wry smile and shook my head.
“You dreamed about him?” Zayn asked.
She looked at him defiantly. “Okay, I know it sounds crazy, but I get so many memories that come back in my dreams, and I thought he was one of them the first time, but the things he said... he couldn’t be.”
“The first time?” Jack prompted.
I sat down heavily on the remaining chair. “Tell us about it.”
“Well, it was when Coulton put me in that sarcophagus,” she began, toying with one of her curls. “I thought I’d fallen asleep, and I was in this desert. There were mountains in the distance, and the sand was turning black, and these dark clouds were coming in... and he was there. He was... I can’t really describe him, only that it felt like when I met all of you, when you told me who you were and I remembered, except this was stronger. He was the one who told me to reach out, to call out to you,” she explained, her bright eyes locking onto mine.
I swallowed, my throat tight. “Did he tell you his name?”
She shook her head. “No, but...” She looked up at me through her dark lashes. “He said I was his wife.”
I closed my eyes in resignation, and I heard the sighs of the other men around the table.
“You know who he is,” Tory said. It was a statement, and I didn’t refute it. I opened my eyes again. She was shaking her head. “You kept something from me, you kept him from me when you told me there were no more secrets. How could you do that to me, Austin?”
“We all knew,” Jack admitted quietly, and she turned to him, shock spreading across her face.
“All of you?” She looked around the table. “You all knew I had a husband somewhere and didn’t think to mention it?”
“We couldn’t,” I told her, standing and walking around the table to kneel in front of her so my face was level with hers. I tried to take her hand, but she snatched it away, and the rejection stung.
“We were sworn to secrecy,” Jasper said. “In our last lives, we swore we wouldn’t reveal his existence.”
“Oh really?” she snapped. “And who made you swear? Who apparently forced you to lie to me about something this important?”
I sighed. “You did.”
Chapter fifteen
ZAYN
TorystareddownatWest, her face draining of colour. She stood like that for a few moments, clearly trying to deal with what he had just told her. I didn’t blame her. After his decision to come clean and tell her everything, I knew he was still feeling conflicted about holding this back from her, especially something this important. But he was right, she had made us swear not to tell her anything. How did you keep a promise to someone when they begged you to break it?
