The plane ride to Norway is excruciatingly long. While we are in flight, we receive a call from Jai. “He’s awake,” Jai says the second that we answer. I feel like I let out a breath that I didn’t know that I’ve been holding since I found out that Tomas was hurt. Zoe and I are both in tears, relief flowing from our bodies as we hold each other. “Oh, thank the Goddess!” Zoe cries out. “Can we talk to him?” I basically beg. “Maan is checking him over personally, right now. But Lily is here, she can update you on everything that we know right now,” Jai says. “Mẹ?” I ask once my mother comes on the phone. “Mẹ, is he ok? Please tell me that he’s ok!” “He’s ok. Everything is taking a bit longer to heal. We believe that’s because it’s a god that hurt him. His werewolf healing slowed down to human healing, but it’s starting to pick up. I’ve been checking on him personally every half hour and would say that his healing is at about half strength right now.” Mẹ’s voice

This bond between us is amazing. Feeling all of our emotions and sensations is going to take a bit of getting used to. Not in a bad way, just in a “Now I have two more people in my head than just the one extra one that was there from my bond with Kaia” type of way. At least I’m used to having that feeling from my matebond with Kaia. Poor Tomas has to get used to having both of us at the same time. We should make it easy for him. We should. Kaia sends me a wicked little smirk and I can’t help but send one right back to her. Slowly, we both move onto our knees. Tomas’s eyes are still closed, his breathing starting to even out. Won’t stay that way for long. I lean down and take his mouth with mine. He moans and starts to respond to the kiss immediately. “Fuck, you taste so GOOD!” His last word is spoken with a yelp as Kaia starts to suck his cock into her mouth. We’ve gotten pretty good at knowing how to hide some things from each other with the bond and with it b

I watch as Alexander and Odysseus walk towards the centaur camp, out of the scant covering that we had found behind some rather large boulders. I’m pissed that the party obsessed, fun loving centaurs that Rick Riordan portrayed in the Percy Jackson series aren’t real. Granted, dude is just humans and has never met a true centaur. But I loved that series as a kid and I was just hoping that some of it was true. Jared gives me a small smile when he sees the slight pout cross my face and pulls me in for a side hug. His other hand is wrapped in Rowen’s. I reach across and place my hand on top of both of theirs. I know that this is hard for him. To watch his twin walk out to face these creatures on his own. I think that the only thing that is holding him back from going to help his brother is knowing that he must have the Goddess’s healing powers. Powers that are somehow even stronger than his parents’. He’ll be able to heal anything that happens to Alexander. Assuming that h

Fighting the hydra was a lot like trying to wrangle a toddler into a special occasion dress. Two of us had to hold it down while the third took care of the business end. At least, that was the experience that we had with trying to get Fati into dresses as a child. Jareth had placed a deflection spell on us so that any attack that the hydra attempted to do, it reflected back at the monster. It kept us safe from direct attacks from the monster, though sometimes the deflected attacks would get a little too close to comfort. Jareth didn’t need to hold the spell on us, so he takes up distracting the hydra while Hakeem, Meredith, and I start hacking at its neck. Things were going well until Jareth slipped on a rock and the hydra turned its attention on us. When it aimed its attention on Meredith, Hakeem got in the way, slashing at its open maw. The problem was that he got the beast’s saliva all over him, the poison eating away his shirt and skin on his arm. Hakeem’s high pitc

The second that Jacob came in the tent with Nathan, he was all I could see. All I could scent. Almost all that I could hear. Bella was right. It wasn’t that Jacob saved my life. Thank the Goddess that he was here and could. It was the fact that the ability to get to know them before the matebond kicked in was taken from me. Because now that we’ve started the bond, my feelings are going to overwhelm me. They are going to be all that I want, simply because we are bonded. And I’m going to allow them to do whatever they want to me, simply because they are my mates. Trust isn’t going to be something that is going to build. Nothing that I’m even going to worry about. I’m just going to give them all of me. And that thought terrifies me. So I freaked out on Jacob. Not because I don’t want him, but because I don’t trust him or myself around him. Nathan was definitely pissed when he walked in, but I knew that had less to do with me and more to do with his situation with N