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Not because she wanted to see me.
Not because she knew that the pulling sensation would lead her to me.
Because a god told her to go.
And because she was lost and confused, she followed the pulling sensation, likely thinking of it as some sort of gut instinct.
There was no way to describe the disappointment as it worked its way through me, as it intensified the pain that I’d just started to think I could manage, figuring it couldn’t get worse.
How wrong was I?
“Are you going to be sick?” Charlotte asked, eyeing me.
“We don’t get sick,” I told her, wincing a bit at the sharpness in my tone, at the way she jerked back from it.
From the burning sensation on my back, I could tell that my damn wings were trying to shoot outward, to reach toward her again.
“How was I supposed to know that?” she asked, folding her arms across her chest, giving me a hard look.
“You weren’t,” I said, trying to soften my voice, but it wasn’t exactly something I had any experience with. “Come inside. I will explain all of it. Answer your questions for a change.”
I didn’t think she was going to agree.
But then her gaze shot to the side, and a small smile toyed at her lips, making me look over to see Lenore at the window, bopping her spawn on her hip as he let out a squeal.
“Okay,” she said, exhaling hard, like the presence of a child made her sure she would be safe.
“Okay,” I agreed, moving aside to let her walk in as I tried like hell not to let hope take too much root in my system, knowing how bad it was going to hurt when she left again.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Charlotte
I half-expected to see Zeus himself before I expected to see Bael standing in that doorway.
Though, objectively, if I were given the choice between Zeus’s sketchy, sexual assaulting ass and Bael, I guess I had to go with Bael.
My mind raced with possibilities of why I could have felt pulled to him. But once he shot down the whole spell thing, I was kind of at a loss.
What I needed was what he was offering.
Answers.
I definitely had plenty of questions, that was for sure.
“Oh, it’s nice and warm in here,” I said, feeling a shiver move through me as the hot air enveloped me.
“We like things warm,” he said as he led me into the library at the front of the house.
They would.
Seeing as where they hailed from.
“I thought I had a lot of books,” I said as my gaze scanned the bookcases that looked to be stacked two deep, and crammed so tight it would be hard to pull the book you wanted to read out.
“Ace is a big reader. He’s our… boss, for lack of a better word.”
“Boss… as in…” I said, pointing toward the floor.
