Total pages in book: 162
Estimated words: 151630 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 758(@200wpm)___ 607(@250wpm)___ 505(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 151630 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 758(@200wpm)___ 607(@250wpm)___ 505(@300wpm)
My son’s love can speak to the dead, and I know sometimes they can frighten her. I would like to keep her away from a place where the dead are tortured and will likely overwhelm her. I hope in Faery we can spend time together and become closer.
“I think Rhys’s powers will also help loosen some tongues,” the King of All Vampire says. Danny was once my childhood sweetheart. Then he died and our lives truly began. We spent years bringing the supernatural world together and building a Council that worked for everyone. We also built a family. A family I love.
Myrddin took it all away from us. He stole twelve years from me and Dev and Danny. Twelve years where our kids and the people we love struggled and fought to stay alive while waiting for us to return.
“You really think the faeries know how to get to the celestial planes?” my bestie asks.
Neil Roberts, the most fab werewolf in all of the planes. We’ve been through a lot together, and having him here with me brings me so much comfort. In the years since we disappeared, Neil and his vampire husband, Chad, adopted two wolves and made a home for themselves within the rebel force.
“I think my mother has access to information.” Dev sits back, his gaze going to the window that looks out over the yard. “The Faery plane connected directly to the Earth plane is rather unique. It’s been posited that faery planes are close to celestial planes. There has to be a way. My brother gave Zoey a relic to use to speak with our ancestors. Unfortunately, my lovely wife chose to use it as C4 to explode my beautiful club.”
Yeah. We’re still processing that. “Babe, Myrddin turned Ether into something terrible. I had to do it. We can start again after we off him.”
Danny stands and frowns Dev’s way. “According to what your brother told us, it’s back in Faery. It was the process of dematerializing to go back to the amulet’s base that caused the explosion. So the amulet is safe and sound in your mother’s palace. We simply need to access it.”
It’s more complex than that. I have to prime it first, so it’s not like we’re going to walk in, find it, and use it. According to my brother-in-law, I have to wear the amulet close to the chain Devinshea gave me when we wed. The Goddess Chain is one of the Fae treasures, and its proximity can allow the wearer to use the amulet.
Dev nods. “Yes, and we can use it to talk to the ancients, who might have some wisdom when it comes to finding Sarah, Felix, and Mia.”
We have come to believe Mia plays a huge role in the prophecy we risked our lives for on the outer planes. The prophecy speaks of a weapon. I believe Mia is that weapon.
My other bestie is a powerful witch, and her husband is a fallen angel. Mia’s powers were off the charts as a kid. She was so powerful Myrddin came for her on the day of his coup. According to the intelligence Kelsey received, Sarah was forced to take her family off plane because Myrddin tried to claim her not-even teen daughter at the time as his bride.
Yeah, I hate that man.
“Beyond finding Sarah, we need to get to Faery to help Rhys control his powers,” Dev says. “I don’t think you understand how bad it could get. His powers seem soft…”
“There’s nothing soft about Rhys.” Sasha waves him off. “Rhys is a hell of a fighter, and his powers can help us win this war. What is it about being in Faery that will help him? I would think having his father back in his life would be what he needs to learn to control these new powers of his. His fathers. Has Bris spoken to him?”
My faery husband’s eyes shift in a heartbeat, the change so quick, going from his normal green to an emerald color that takes over the entire eye, leaving no white behind. Unlike my son, who ascended to godhood all on his own, my husband did it the old-fashioned way. He opened his soul to a non-corporeal ancient god. Bris, an Irish fertility god. They bonded at our wedding. Which I mostly didn’t know was a wedding. Let me tell you it’s a shock when you realize the public proof of sexual compatibility ritual you’re performing with your honey has been taken over by a sex god.
Though now I simply love Bris. He looks my way and sends me a warm smile. “My Goddess.”
“My Lord,” I reply with a smile of my own.
Once he’s greeted me, he turns to Sasha. “General, being in Faery will amplify Rhys’s powers. My host believes being in Faery will push our son to have sex. Rhys is a sex god. He requires sex to exist. It is not natural for him to be a virgin, and that state is causing him to struggle to contain his magic. If he were having sex as he should, his partners would absorb some of his magic.”