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“You’ll not gaslight my flame,” Atlas says.
“Fucking stars,” Hex mutters, swiping a hand over his face.
“I don’t even know what that term means,” Silence huffs.
“Your flame?” I ask, twisting to see Atlas’s face.
“That’s not the one I don’t understand,” Silence mutters.
“My heart’s flame—my other half. It took a bit of work to get you to notice me. That’s because of whatever damage those two inflicted on you.” Atlas brushes his lips over my forehead in a tender kiss. “If I’d known you in Faere, I would have claimed you then.”
“Is that why I feel like my chest sizzles every time we’ve touched since last night?” I ask, frowning. “We’ve grown close over the years. Why am I just now feeling our connection?”
“Rip my heart out, why don’t you?” Silence says.
“I have opinions on that,” Hex says, but he doesn’t sound pleased about it.
“It could’ve been that your magic was still healing and not prepared for another mate connection,” Atlas suggests.
I spent most of the night explaining the details of my magic and the specifics of how I left Faere. I’m pretty sure Atlas knew most of the information before I ever told him. Well, aside from the specifics on exactly what my magic can do.
Hex glares in our direction. “What the bloody fuck do you mean her magic is still healing?”
My body goes completely still.
That’s none of his business.
Hex and Silence don’t deserve to know anything about me. They forfeited that right.
“Alinelle?” Silence asks in a soothing tone he has no right to use.
“Did you honestly think you’d appear, and I’d just...” I grimace, because my tone sounds a bit hysterical. “Let you lull me into some false sense of security?”
It’s the mate bond connection.
We’re meant to be fated to one another. I’ve ignored the pull to the point that it feels like magnets yank my soul in their direction.
The universe wants us to honor that connection.
The universe can blow me.
“What is it you’re convinced we did?” Hex growls. “How the fuck can we begin rectifying our mistakes if you won’t tell us what we’ve done?”
I’m not a violent person. Not outside of my magic, anyway, so even I am surprised when I spin around, slamming the heel of my foot into his cock. I haven’t forgotten the decades of training I received from my mother’s best assassins.
“You...total asshole!” I snarl as Atlas wraps his arm around my middle.
I kick like a three-year-old having a tantrum as he carries me over, taking a seat on the couch with me on his lap.
“You’re very lucky I like you,” I grumble. “I could’ve gotten in at least one or two more good hits.”
Atlas beams so wide that I can see it, despite the awkward angle. “You make me happy, sweet fae.”
“Sweet?” Hex chokes. “This is the second time she’s gone for my nuts. She’s just damaged my ballocks for life. That’s not verysweet. I hope someone else has workable balls after this, otherwise we’ll never have fledglings.”
I freeze.
Atlas growls. The sound is incredibly chilling. I’d be afraid, but I have zero fear where he’s concerned.
