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She rolled her eyes. “Really, Elvey?”
Elvey shrugged. “Daisy’s roof, Daisy’s rules.”
Oh, I couldn’t love him more for that.
“If you came for Elvey, you can’t have him,” I said. “We didn’t go through all our battles just so you can steal him.”
“Elvey is one of us,” Blaze said, not afraid of the goddess. “We’ll fight anyone in any place at any time for him.”
Rai grabbed the helm of his pajamas and clenched a fist while sending Elvey a withering look. “We guard what’s ours.”
Iokul nodded his agreement, icy steam hissing out of his mouth.
Arianrhod blinked. “Will you all fight me—your goddess—for your rival? You didn’t even like him much.”
“We like him just fine,” Blaze said. “Not often, though. But he’s our brother now. We just have to tolerate him.”
“It’s not in our heart to fight you, great goddess,” Rai said. “Please don’t take our brother. Don’t make us go to another war when we just ended one.”
“It will break our mate’s heart if you take one of hers,” Iokul said. “We vowed to never let her heart break again at any cost.”
“A bargain is a bargain,” Arianrhod said, very displeased, yet her voice remained lovely and seductive.
“I don’t care,” I said. “Null it. We’re not going to fulfill it.”
“The deal is between Elvey and me,” Arianrhod said. “I need him as I need no other.”
Cold rage filled me like an electric charge. Violence was going to break out any second.
Elvey moved like a flash and stepped in front of me to shield me. “Daisy, beloved, calm down. Arianrhod doesn’t plan to take me. At least not today.”
“Not ever,” I said through my gritted teeth.
I was at the edge of shifting to a dragon. My fangs prolonged.
Arianrhod laughed viciously. “There are consequences to defying the divinity.”
“My father is returning, isn’t he?” Elvey asked warily.
Could he also read a goddess?
Elvey was born from the union of the God of Night and Sky and light Fae Princess Levana. His father hadn’t been able to look at his infant son after his Fae consort died in a child birth. He’d taken off to another universe right after that and abandoned Elvey in his grief. Elvey hadn’t forgiven his father.
Why would the god return now?
“Did you feel him?” Arianrhod asked.
“No,” Elvey said. “My connection to him is faint, but I feel your fear.”
An unpleasant thought sliced through my mind. Did my mate have a bond to the goddess so he could feel her?
“I came to warn you in person,” Arianrhod sighed, dark light of uneasiness shading her once bright eyes. “He’s coming for you. After millennia, he finally regretted leaving you. He’s determined to take you with him to Zathos—the legendary planet of the gods, and he won’t take no for an answer.”
“He won’t have my mate,” I said, fire searing my words.
“Caelus is more powerful than any god and goddess in Inanna,” Arianrhod said. “He plays by no one’s rules except his, and he isn’t only the God of Night and Sky. He’s also the God of Ruin. He leaves chaos, destruction, and death in his wake when he chooses.”
“We’re quite familiar with chaos, destruction, and death,” Iokul said. “Let him come, and we’ll make sure he leaves our brother alone.”
