Page 46 of Bloodline Unbound

“I hope she can help us. I’d like to go back home at some point.”

I pressed a kiss to Logan’s temple. “I hope so, too.”

I wasn’t eager to be back on the road, but we finished up as quickly as we could and I settled into the passenger seat as Logan took over. Seth shifted back into his small form and set a questioning paw on my leg, looking up at me with wide eyes.

Lap?

I scooped him over. I hadn’t held him like this for decades. He started purring instantly and rubbed his head against my chest. Logan reached over and gave him a few ear scratches before pulling out of the parking lot. Seth was out like a light before we even made it onto the interstate. I cradled him with one ankle crossed over my knee and a hand around his back.

“You two are really cute,” Logan whispered.

“He hasn’t done this since he was young.” I braced my other hand on the back of Logan’s neck, lightly teasing her skin with my fingertips as she drove. “I’ve missed it.”

“I imagine last night got him more comfortable with both of us.”

I snorted. “That’s one way of putting it.”

“Are you still okay with it?”

“Pretty sure, yeah. I expected to not be.”

“I definitely expected you to not be.” She gave a little smile, but kept her eyes on the road.

“Look, we both know I have one weakness in this world and that’s you. If he makes you happy, I’ll step?—”

“Don’t you fucking dare finish that sentence. You make me happy. I like Seth and I’m happy to play with him, but I love you and you’re fucking stuck with me, buddy.”

My sudden burst of laughter jostled Seth out of his sleep. I patted his side until he curled back up and settled down.

“I like being stuck with you.”

She reached over and gave my thigh a squeeze. “I’m glad you’re okay with it. At least as okay as you can be. I’m going to try to contact Hecate again when we’re settled in Oregon. I need more information about some things she told me.”

“What kind of information?”

“I want to get some clarity before I tell you. I mean, I have a pretty good inkling given recent developments, but I was too chickenshit to say it at the time.”

“Clarify,” I said, squeezing a little at the back of her neck.

“Hecate told me she was sending gifts.”

My spine stiffened. “What kind of gifts?”

“All I know is that she said she brought you to me, that she brought Seth, and that she’s bringing others.”

I sat with the information. I’d always sort of assumed that some sort of divinity had led Seth and me to find Logan when we’d been injured. Had Seth chosen us to come to when he ran from the entity, despite our rocky relationship, because a goddess had prompted him?

Who the fuck else was coming?

Were they all going to fall for her?

Where the hell did that leave me?

“You’re being too quiet,” she said. “It’s freaking me out.”

“I’m not sure what I’d say.”

“I just want you to know that whatever the hell the goddess plans for me, I love you and that’s never going to change.”

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