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“Linus and his scouts are already in the infernal realm. If you tell me—”
“No, the entrance is hidden—only someone who’s been there before can locate it,” Kallen explains, shaking his head. “I have to be there with them, at least.”
“Fine, I’ll go with you,” Mateo declares with a terse nod.
“I don’t think—”
“You may have had a change of heart, but that doesn’t mean I trust you,” Mateo huffs with a derisive snort. “I’m not going to have my spies walk into a trap, and that’s final.”
“Fine,” Kallen says, crossing his arms over his chest, defeated.
“I have another idea,” Liv says, stepping out of my hold. My lips quirk to the side as my arm falls, already not liking where this is going. “If we’re already going to the infernal realm, I think I should go and meet with the demons.”
“The demons?” I ask incredulously at the same time Mateo asks, “Seraphina’s demons?”
“Yes, Seraphina’s demons.” She nods, looking around at the rest of us. “Seraphina’s mates were locked away, and only with her death was she able to transfer the heart to them. They’re the rightful rulers of the infernal realm, and they might be willing to help us.”
“You have no idea where they are though,” Octavia says, her look pensive as though she’s actually considering this.
“No, but there might be someone who does,” Olivia says, looking at Octavia pointedly.
“There might be someone,” she admits, placing a finger to her lips thoughtfully. “Maybe I’ll—”
“No, I have to go with you,” Olivia says, cutting her off. “I was there with Seraphina in her last moments. I saw the pain in her eyes at the thought of leaving her demons alone in this world. I have to let them know how much she loved them. I have to make sure they know of the promise I made to her.”
“What promise?” Maximus grumbles, crossing his arms over his chest as his eyes narrow on our mate.
“I promised to kill Romulus and help her people rebuild their world.” Olivia sighs as though it’s no big deal.
Maximus growls, but she cuts him off before he can get a word out.
“If they knew about that, if I could prove it somehow, I might be able to gain their trust,” she explains, her eyes lighting up as the plan unfolds before her. “They might just be the help we need to tip the scales.”
“I don’t know—” Kyros starts, but Mateo cuts him off.
“I’m with you, little mate,” Mateo says, and the three of us turn our incredulous glares at him. “I don’t like it, but you know what you’re doing, and I support you one hundred percent.”
Olivia grins at his praise, her chest puffing out with pride.
“Asshole,”I project to him.“Now she’s going to think we’re pricks if we disagree.”
“That’s not my fault.”He chuckles.“Don’t be a prick, and she won’t think you are one.”
“You motherfu—”
“We should go first thing in the morning,” Mateo says out loud, cutting off my projection. “You start working on a map of the area, Kallen.”
Kallen takes a deep breath as though he’s about to argue, but Mateo cuts him off.
“I don’t care if we won’t be able to find the entrance without you. I want to give our scouts as much information as possible,” Mateo says, his jaw tightening as he leaves no room for argument.
“Fine,” Kallen huffs in annoyance.
“Titus and Maximus will bring you to a room and gather the supplies for you,” Osias says, giving a nod to the two other gods. “The rest of us will confer with Lysander and Irene and assign the gods and demigods their areas of patrol, and we need to also brief everyone on the security measures in case of an attack like today.”
Everyone murmurs their agreement and files from the room. I’m about to follow them, but something niggles at the back of my mind. I watch Olivia as she turns to the door, my stomach twisting at the thought of not voicing my concerns.
“We’ll be there in a second,” I say, waving the others on and catching Olivia’s wrist as she’s about to follow them.
