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Or else we would have gone insane.
"Cycles are like bad habits. They’re hard to break and even harder to heal from,” I whispered but smiled. “That doesn’t mean it’s not possible. I honestly wouldn’t mind going to therapy. Maybe it’ll give me a different outlook in life, though if anyone asks me to throw in the towel in being a badass bitch, it ain’t happening.”
That got them chuckling and the heaviness of the situation seemed to dim.
“I’d appreciate it,” Milo whispered. “Maybe we can get Loki to come along. Eventually.”
“In due time,” I agreed.
“So what do we do with the excess energy?” Viktor brought us back to the previous topic. “If we have a game plan, maybe we can get this done tonight if you’re all up for it?”
“Willow doesn’t need to be in the office tomorrow,” Neo noted.
“I don’t?” I inquired as I looked over to my Sweet Mate. He shook his head.
“Dimitris gave you Tuesday to Thursday off,” Neo revealed. “He was in charge of scheduling all of us and the meetings happening at both sites. Jayce is pretty pleased with the new security measures including the cameras and fingerprint scanning technology, but not all the staff are in the system yet so I believe he wants to spend the next few days doing that. Saint is helping with the apartments and making sure everything is set. I have no clue what Dimitris assigned Loki and Onyx.”
“Hunting,” Milo simply stated as a dark smirk formed on his lips. “They’re halfway through the list.”
“Shit, already?” Viktor questioned.
Milo simply chuckled which told me he was the prime suspect in trickery.
“What did you scheme?” I questioned with an eyebrow raise.
“I told them whoever gets the most kills gets to be the first to take Willow out in the new year,” Milo revealed.
“Smooth,” Neo complimented.
“I love how everyone uses me as leverage when it comes to betting,” I noted.
“You’re a prize everyone wishes to claim,” Milo teased with a wink. “As for the excess energy, I can absorb it if you wish. It’ll mean I’ll be taking less from the lagoon to replenish myself.”
“Won’t it taint you?” That was one of the bigger concerns with this. “If it’ll potentially destroy the lagoon, what about you?”
Milo just stared back at me like I’d missed a part of the equation.
“Are we missing something?” Neo decided to ask on my behalf.
“Did I not specify the type of fae I am?” Milo inquired as he furrowed his brows.
“Uh…” I trailed off and looked to the others who seemed just as bewildered as I. “You’re a fae prince.”
“A dark fae prince,” he revealed. “Though I’ve shown generally loads of ‘light’ qualities, that’s just my base level fae magic. My real abilities…well. They’re not for the faint of heart. Why else would I be kidnapped? The Vile Queen doesn’t give a shit about regular fae or ones of royal background. They don’t have the level of power she needs in her grasp. She doesn’t want basic or ordinary. She seeks the endangered. The rare beings on the brink of extinction. The rarer they are, the more valuable she believes they can be. That’s why she kept Loki for so long.”
“Because he’s the last reaper wolf,” I whispered.
“In the whole world. Not just America. There are no other reaper wolves.”
“But what about Onyx?” I had to ask. “I know he’s a shadow wolf and all but now with Loki in the picture, doesn’t that mean Onyx should be one too?”
“No,” Milo announced and shook his head. “Shadow wolves are rare and endangered but there’s another form to them. Think of it like an ascension. Onyx is only at his base wolf form. He probably has a higher form he hasn’t tapped into at all.”
“Then Loki?” Viktor inquired, clearly as intrigued with Onyx's predicament as I was.
“I know very little about his pack, but Loki is on the Yang side of the duo pack. Their pack is like an empire with two kings. One is of light and the other is of darkness. The Yang side isn’t of darkness.”
“But…” I trailed off as I tried to think of it - a flickering sight of Loki in a ray of gleaming light flashing through my mind. I’d thought it was but a dream, a flickering moment where my eyes were deceiving me, but when I saw his large frame blend so perfectly in the moon’s rays before the brink of the morning, I knew without a doubt it was him.
