Page 76 of Red Moon Secrets
"Don't look at me. I told you not to take the bloody thing with us."
He eyes her back, and she finally sighs while looking away.
"The ones who were after Alyssa?" Kane says, shaking his head. "I should have tracked them down and killed them. What's does the black diamond of Roth do?"
"Too many things. Its power is limitless. It's too strong to control, and too damn strong to destroy. I was charged with keeping it safe. I've done great for centuries, but I kept worrying they'd find it if I left it behind. So, I grabbed it when we came back. Little did we know the bastards had been following us.
"We killed the bulk of them, but that son of a bitch leader snatched the diamond and fled, while leaving behind some of his minions for us to fight. Then your father," she says, growling the last part, and Drackus sinks to chair with a huff before she continues, "fucking lost it. He killed the ones who didn't get away, but I had to waste time bringing him down instead of going after the fiend who stole the diamond."
Fiend? Gah, she's old.
"You need a shower," Drackus says, seeming a little random.
Then again, he could be shifting the subject to keep her from exploding on him.
"Why didn't you just use your magic?" I ask, curious as to why they're still wearing all that blood.
Kane bursts out laughing when Mom shoots me a scowl.
"What?" I ask, genuinely confused.
"I never thought to use my magic, Alyssa," she snarls, angry sarcasm in her voice.
Damn. She's irritated.
"The night stalker opened the planes of the blood realm with the black diamond of Roth. He didn't mean to. It just happened. It can't be cleaned with magic. It'll take a long time to wash all this out."
Drackus winks at her and her cheeks turn pink. Oh...that’ssodisgusting. Bile rises to my mouth.
"Are you two—back together?" I ask, sounding a little shocked.
Mom's grin curls up, and I groan as I smother my face against Kane's chest.
"We only split up to keep you safe, Alyssa. Then we saw each other in secret when we could. I remarried a few times, but only to keep up pretenses," Mom says softly, making my stomach turn.
A few,I scoff inwardly. She's had more husbands than a black widow—um, the human kind.
Shay walks in, and her eyes meet my mother's warily.
"Calypso," she mutters in greeting, standing taller than usual.
Mom stands taller, too. Is this a female alpha standoff?
"Shay," she murmurs coolly, keeping her expression plain.
Chaz looks back and forth between the two, probably worried punches are soon to come, but neither Mom nor Shay say anything else.
"Shower," Drackus says, wrapping his arms around my mother as he stands. "Then someone can fill us in on what all has happened, since we found absolutely nothing during our pointless time away. Our source never showed up."
Yeah—I'll let them have a second to breathe before I knock the air out of them with all we've found.
"I'm going to fucking killhim," Kane says for thehundredthtime since he found out about the Aphrodite spell Gage cast on me. Should. Not. Have. Told. Him.
"Not if I kill him first," Drackus says, repeating the same line he's said every time Kane has made that threat.
I sigh out, wishing I could find a way to save Gage from whatever wrath Kane will have. I won't let him actually kill him. Besides, I'm going to kick his ass first.
"It was his deluded way of keeping Alyssa safe," Mom says with a sigh, only defending the dark user to defuse my father.
