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Jesska glanced at her sister, still in a heated exchanged with Cameron, and then back at him. “Well, now’s your chance to get used to it.”
He smiled again. “We’ll see.”
Megan shoved Cameron past them and then turned to Jesska. “Out, please.”
Jesska bit her lip again, and it took every bit of self-control for Kaspar not to pry it from her teeth and kiss her. He squeezed her hand and nodded, which elicited another frown from her, but she did step outside and close the door.
Megan turned the lock and headed back to the desk. “Where were we?”
“What did you hear?”
“That you’re not human,” she whispered.
“It’s true.”
“I don’t understand.”
Kaspar stared out at the water. “I know you don’t, and I think Ari should be telling you this, but I also think it’s something you’ve suspected for a while. Am I right?”
Megan nodded. “I think so. There were too many weird things happening for it to be normal. Is this why he was acting so strange?”
“Yes.” Kaspar sat down again and indicated for Megan to do the same. “You have to understand that when we turn twenty-five, we reach what we call ár mökunar, which means that when we find our... ah, the person we are going to be with forever, we don’t wait around. We bind them and move on with our lives. When Ari met you, he knew you were his mate, but he couldn’t do anything until you reached ár mökunar as well. As a human, you were forbidden to him, but he would never have been able to accept that, so he tried to make it work.”
“Well then, why are you here and not him?”
“He’s ... ah... hann er í fangelsi.”
“He’s in jail?” she squeaked.
“You speak Icelandic?”
“I lived there for a long time. Of course I picked up the language,” she said in frustration. “Don’t change the subject.”
“Sorry.”
“Why is he in jail?”
“Because he’s an idiot.”
“What did he do?” she asked.
“He found your other daughters and dosed their families with Red Fang; however, it didn’t work. He was caught and is now in Edinburgh.”
“Scotland?”
Kaspar nodded.
“He found our babies?” she rasped.
“Já. They are mat—ah, married and living there.”
“What are they like? Were they happy growing up? Are they happy now? Do they know what happened?”
“I don’t know, Megan. I’m sorry.”
“I have to go there,” she said, and pulled her phone out of her pocket. “Crap. It’s dead. I need my laptop.”
“Wait,” Kaspar said. “We can’t go anywhere until we sort this out. I don’t know that you would be allowed to see him anyway.”
