Page 44 of Gate of Chaos


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“This entire room just gotscandalized.” Keon got to his feet.

“Kira, youknowby human standards that was harmless, right?” I asked. “Akoni?Right?”

Keon pulled Akoni to his feet and dusted off Akoni’s shoulders. “Is that the first high school comedy you’ve seen?”

“Yes.” He huffed.

“They don’t have tethers,” Keon explained. “It’s not at all like that for humans.”

“Iknowhumans don’t form tethers.”

Kira had a handful of the fabric of her dress clutched in her hand. “We generally don’t watch high school comedies for this reason, but it wassupposedto be wholesome!”

“Itwaswholesome. By human standards,” I told her.

She wrung her hands, totally skeeved out.

“To be fair, the first twenty or so movies are shocking,” Keon told me, “and you neverreallyget used to it.”

“I’ll keep that in mind for our pups,” I said.

“Pups?” She grabbed me by the wrist. “You have a pup coming?!”

“What?!” Akoni’s voice cracked. “Auryn said nothing!”

Dragons looked over at us.

“Auryn didn’t say anything!” Akoni grabbed my other wrist. “When did you find out? Does he know?”

“Ack! No! I meant,eventually.” I flailed and waved my arms but Kira was holding onto me in a deathgrip and I ended up waving Kira around. “I’m not pregnant! I’m not!”

Keon caught Akoni.

Kira dropped her grip on my wrist and her glittery smile returned. “I would have laughed if Akoni had fainted.”

Akoni sorted himself like a man straightening his suit. “I would not havefainted. I would have been extremely shocked is all.”

“You and me both.” My phone rattled against my hip. I pulled it out of my little pocket. Had Dekka heard I’d gone to a trashy movie and it was time to come home now?

EMILY [WARNING : OUTSIDE NETWORK]

call me

“Holy hell,” I said. “Why the hell is my family suddenly texting?”

Fourteen

EMILY [WARNING : OUTSIDE NETWORK]

u there

Had Hekon posted something concerning on social media? A quick check revealed “I” hadn’t posted for a few days, but my last post was an image of “me” in knee-high rubber boots inspecting a topside pipe with some witty caption about tree roots.

Helena [WARNING: OUTSIDE NETWORK]

Who died?

EMILY [WARNING : OUTSIDE NETWORK]

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