Page 74 of Foretold

“Then why are you here?” I ask, taking a slow step forward.

“You returned my mate to me,” he says, tilting his head to the side and watching me. I notice that his wrists are still bare, so although he knows who his mate is, they haven’t yet bonded, which is interesting, considering he was willing to do anything to get her back. “And now I’m going to do something for you.”

“What?” I ask, frowning.

“I was contacted about kidnapping you again,” he murmurs, running his finger along the scar on his cheek. “There’s an incubus warlord who wants you to bear him children. There’s nothing he wouldn’t give to have you, to have some succubus daughters.”

“Well, too bad for him,” I growl out, pissed off that anyone thinks they are entitled to me. “Who is it?”

“I think the more important question is, who worked with the Vampire King to get you locked up in his dungeons? He didn’t work alone,” he says, red eyes flickering with something that looks like pity. “Who was willing to serve you up on a platter to this incubus?”

I don’t like that.

My stomach twists, and I know that whatever he says next, I’m not going to like.

“Who also told him that you are a fucking seer, which makes him want you ten million fucking times more,” Rion now growls out, looking pissed off.

What?

“Any reason you’re alone with my mate in the dark?” Rave growls as he appears in a whirl of dark smoke. I feel how angry he is through the bond and how badly he wants to murder the male in front of us.

I put my hand out to stop him as he steps closer to Rion. “Someone betrayed me.”

Only a few people know I’m a seer—people I trust. Unless Laurel told someone, but I don’t see what she would get out of me being taken as some brooding mare. That doesn’t sound like the change she was talking about. That is the opposite of freedom.

My mind roams to the night I was kidnapped. Zython had pulled Rave and Soren away, wanting to show them his weaponry.

And then I was taken.

My father has betrayed me.

Are my brothers in on this too?

My hand absently rubs my chest, right above my heart. “My father.”

“What?” Rave growls, pulling me against his chest. “What are you talking about?”

“Zython was working with the Vampire King,” is all Rion has to say for Rave to understand.

“Why are you telling us this?” I ask. I don’t trust Rion as far as I can throw him. From what I’ve seen and heard, he only does things that benefit himself.

His eyes flash with anger before they become gentle. “My mate…”

“She wanted you to tell me the truth?”

He nods once, sharply. “She appreciates you all, as do I, for saving her from the Vampire King. Consider us even now.”

So, it’s the truth.

Tears pool in my eyes, but I will them away. I guess the whole lost father thing was a story too good to be true.

Maybe he knew about me all along and didn’t care.

Or maybe he’s just a snake who was happy to get whatever he could by using me.

“I’m going to kill him,” Rave snarls, looking over to Rion. “This information better be the truth, or you and your mate will not live another day.”

Electricity sparks off Rion’s hands at the threat, but he nods. “It’s the truth. Zython tried to hire me to take her to Declan. He’s an incubus warlord who wants her. Zython owes him a debt, and he called it in when he heard about Astrid. Zython has also asked for Declan’s daughter’s hand in marriage for Axe.”

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