Page 40 of Knowing Trust

When Calarel left, I glanced at my dad and he smirked. “That wasn’t all you were taught, right?”

“No, and our relatives need to seriously take turns if they want to talk to me. That fucking hurt.”

He threw back his head and burst out laughing. “Tell me.”

I did better and showed him. I showed him how one of the gods gave me a vision on how to easily make diamonds that seemed like they were made in a lab. They were between one to two carats and probably worth a thousand dollars each to sell to a distributor or jeweler and I could do three at a time easily.

Easily.

“They will get bigger or I can do more as my power grows, but I can make piles, so we need to set up some back network or way to make this work,” I told him.

“I’ll handle it with Iolas so it’s always running,” he said.

For even when he was gone. I swallowed loudly and looked away.

“I know, I know, Daughter,” he whispered, leaning in and kissing my hair “I will always be with you. So will your mother. We will always watch over you from where we sit in Paradise. Never doubt that. If nothing else, I am relieved that my family can send you messages. I will make them send you our love.”

That was the first comforting thing I had about all the weirdness about being related to gods. I nodded and asked him to send in the guys, doing my best to keep it together.

He nodded and left, probably knowing I would start crying the moment he did.

Lucca was holding me not even a minute later. “It doesn’t help when he says you’re fine and it’s not about the news you learned when we find you crying, cream puff.”

“I have less than a year with him,” I rasped, trying to tell him what was going on and keep it together.

“Yeah, we figured it was something like that,” Julian whispered as he kissed my hair. “Are you really okay?”

I nodded. “So forgive me for blurting this all out because it’s all crazy and waiting has to kill you guys.”

“You know us too well,” Darby grumbled.

I raised my head and gave him the best smile I could. “I’m not thirty yet but—”

“You can have kids now,” he finished for me knowing that would be difficult for me to say. “Right, that’s why Lageos wasn’t worried and knew what this was, but it would make you both sentimental.”

“Yes, but this changes nothing,” I said firmly. I was glad when I heard snorts echo in the room. “My mom didn’t faint from that, just the pain, and apparently my period is going to be a super bitch.”

Neldor snorted alone then. “Twice a year normally for royals and heirs. Mother was… Yeah, I heard the same for your mother. It’s not clockwork, but a couple of times a year it just happens that you will have—Mother was in bed the whole time and Father was a mess that she was in such pain, that she would be vulnerable.”

“Wow, that’s a bit much,” I muttered. I hurried on when I saw the shock in his eyes. “I’m not picking on her. I’m just saying that like we didn’t need anything else to be shitty for us.”

“No, you really didn’t, Tams,” he sighed. “So why did you faint? What other crazy?”

I told them and the four of them looked at me with the crazy I felt while Neldor just stared at me in awe. It was hard to accept, and I gestured to the others. “I’m with them, Nel. I try to be cool about this, but this is super-duper weird to me.”

“So just so I’m super clear here,” Hudson said with a heavy sigh. “One of your grandparents gave you a vision of how not to get pregnant on accident with your crazy ass magic and invented a rune X for you?”

“And how to make lab diamonds to sell for Faerie,” Julian added.

“And extend the sorbet company to sell to humans,” Lucca muttered.

“Plus, a warning not to con humans for money from a different one,” Darby mumbled as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

“Yeah, basically. So makes sense why I fainted. Kinda wanna drink, right?”

I really, really wasn’t shocked when they all agreed, especially when I showed them that I could make lab diamonds. I went to say something else, but my eyes went wide as I dropped the diamonds and slapped my hand over my mouth. I teleported over to the side of the room and could only find some fancy-looking vase.

“Yeah, Mother did that a lot too,” Neldor muttered as he helped me with my hair as I puked into the probably priceless vase. “Let’s get you home so Irma can baby you like you’ll need.”

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