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“And you’re ok with it?” I looked at Aeon.
“Does it matter what I think? It makes her happy and why would I take that away from her?” He looked back at me like I had lost my mind. “They have good information too, why would I pass up different ways to make her come?”
They continued to pack her things while I thought about these books wondering why on earth anyone would read them. Once we finished grabbing most of her things, we took them up to their pack room and began to unpack.
We made quick work of unpacking before I went for the last of her things as they went back to their rooms for their things. We didn’t have a lot of stuff to our name so it wouldn’t take all of us to finish it quickly.
I entered their pack room, seeing them put clothes in their closet along with setting things throughout the room. It looked just like how I imagined our life was destined to be with Vivienne. For the first time, I wondered what life with Vivienne would have been like. Would we have hated each other? Grown to love her? Or were we always destined to fail?
“This was a great idea, Zev,” Aeon said, as he came out of the closet.
Lucien came out of the bathroom, looking around the room.
“It was a great idea, and it would be even better if you just moved in with us and mated her already.” Lucien glared at me. “What if this spell requires us to be mated to her, or maybe us being mated to her gives her the power she needs to break it?”
“That’s a lot of what-ifs. You think all of that was put into the spell?” I snapped. “You think Vivienne sat there listing out all of these things? No, at the end of the day she wanted to punish us for Goddess knows what. She conjured this curse to punish us and that’s all there is to it.”
“Zev, I think you really need to think about it, what if you mating her ensured she breaks the spell? Don’t you think it’s weird that ever since she’s mated Lucien, we are awakening earlier and staying human later?” Aeon looked exasperated at me.
“The same reason that our wards around the property failed. The magic is getting weak. Isn’t that what you and Mr. Potter speculated?”
He narrowed his eyes at me. “Yes, but…”
“So then what is it? You can’t change your narrative to manipulate me,” I snarled, getting impatient and hating them ganging up on me.
“Just think about it, ok?” Lucien said, getting between us. “She won’t admit it, but I will, our bond doesn’t feel complete and you walking out on Yule was a dick move. It might not help with breaking the curse, but we were always supposed to share our mate.”
I didn’t know what to say because he was right. We were always supposed to share a mate, but the possibility that we would lose her made my stomach sour. My resolve on mating her was dwindling away, but I couldn’t let go. There was still a possibility that she was going to do something to us, purposely or accidentally.
“I know we might lose her. We might only get a few months of happiness, but I think her love and feeling complete for a few months is better than feeling many lifetimes of heartache. Happiness that I never knew existed warms my soul, and I finally got tired of feeling numb.” Aeon smiled. “Zev, she’s everything we’ve always wanted and more.”
Lucien smiled, looking at Aeon with a dreamy look on his face.
“She’s the calm before the storm, but she is also the eye of the storm. She will cause havoc, but fuck if I don’t love every single piece of her.” Lucien’s smile grew. “You of all people know how sassy she can be, she is our equal in every way. Katarina is a sprig of lavender in our stressful lives, an amethyst to heal our damaged hearts and most of all, a purple sunrise, because she is giving us hope for another day.”
Lucien looked extremely happy. I was jealous, so hateful, but I couldn’t put my faith in her. I simply couldn’t trust her; I wouldn’t survive another betrayal.
“Just think about it,” Aeon said. “Come on, let’s go see if we can find this grimoire.”
Aeon grabbed Lucien’s hand walking out of the room, leaving me even more confused and resentful. If she died, they had each other. Who would I have?
I followed them out of the room debating on whether I wanted to shift and spend the rest of my time running or helping. Not wanting to be a dick or selfish, I headed to the library.
“I must have gotten the vision wrong or maybe it was the wrong book.” Katarina’s voice was sad when I walked into the library. “I guess I was hoping she would have just left it somewhere obvious, instead of hiding it.”
Katarina looked up at me with narrowed eyes as I walked closer to her.
“You’ve checked everywhere?” Lucien wrapped an arm around her.
“Mr. Potter looked for a dark grimoire with purple and gold and I’ve been looking too, we both haven’t found anything,” she said, looking over the library when her eyes grew big. “She said she left it with Vivienne’s book. Do you know—”
I didn’t wait to hear what she said before I took off.
“Zev!” Katarina called out to me, and I could hear her following me.
I ran up the stairs to the bookshelf to the secret spot my mothers had and climbed the bookshelf. Once I got to the top, I looked in the bench that opened up at the corner exactly where I had found Vivienne’s grimoire. As soon as I opened I saw it there, a black grimoire with purple and gold on it.
“Holy shit, Zev!” Katarina screamed, launching herself at me. “You found it!”
