Page 32 of My Karmic Destiny

My informed guess is that he had nothing to do with this. I ignore his question and turn my attention to Evan.

“I didn’t do anything with your phones or texts.” Evan uncrosses his arms and appears alarmed. “What happened?”

Inclined to believe their innocence, I explain, “I received unsettling texts from Dante that he never sent. When I tried to show him what he said in them, they were no longer there.”

Evan snaps his gaze to Dante. “And you aren’t doing it?”

“Why the fuck would I sabotage my relationship? That’s your agenda, not mine.” Dante stands and takes a threatening step toward Evan. “You are the only one with something to gain from what those texts said.”

I step between the two towering, almost feral men and place a hand on their chests, ready to knock them backward with my unique psychic powers.

Evan’s eyes drop to where my hand makes contact. The warmth from his thinly covered chest sends a shiver through me.

“What does he mean?” Evan demands. “What did they say?”

Thankfully, they no longer appear ready for a fistfight. “In the texts, Dante supposedly says that he wants me to get you two out of my system.”

“We’re in your system?” Kurtis asks, hope bleeding into his tone.

“Not the point, asshole,” Dante grumbles.

“Maybe it is,” Evan argues. “To us.”

“Focus, boys!” I snap. “I’m worried that someone, maybe of agodlysort, is fucking with me… with all of us.”

“How? By having us fuck?” Kurtis asks in disbelief.

“Maybe?” I shrug, then realize I’m still touching Evan and Dante. I finally drop my hands from the two hotties. “If I were to do what the texts said to do, I would be sneaking around with you both, and I’m sure Dante would eventually find out. If I betrayed him like that, he could have confronted me, then I would have told him he wanted me to do it. All our lives would have imploded because of it. Ruined our connections, our friendships.”

“So you think it could be Instant, coming back to hurt us?” Evan comes to the same conclusion I have.

“Or it could be someone else. We’ve heard that other gods aren’t much better than she was. We know the myths, the Greekswere notorious for being cruel to humans. What if they wanted to mess with us because of how we helped take down Instant?”

The room grows quiet, all of us thinking about that for a long moment.

“We need to be careful,” Evan suggests, his worried gaze lingering on me.

“I think the only way we can trust anything is if we hear it from someone in person,” I suggest. “I don’t want anyone tearing us away from each other.”

“You’re right. It might be part of their plan, especially if Instant is returning,” Evan adds. “She wouldn’t want us to be focused on what’s really going on. She’d want us to fight each other and not her.”

“Distracted,” Dante agrees.

“Exactly.” My gut twists at the thought of fighting another god.

We all give each other long glances.

Finally, Kurtis breaks the silence. “So… if Dante said he was cool with it, would you have dated Evan and me?”

I bite my lip and swallow hard, my eyes snapping over to see Dante’s reaction or see if he will respond first. Alas, no. I was hoping the bigger picture that we were being fucked with by someone would overshadow the part about dating them.

“I understand if you want to,” Dante sighs and drops to sit on the bed again.

I race over and stand between his legs, clasping his handsome face in my hands. I lift his gaze to meet mine. I lean down for a kiss. “You’re more than I deserve.”

His hands snake around my waist, pulling me closer. “Untrue. But I think you may need more than what I can offer.”

“Don’t,” I chide. “It isn’t like that. I didn’t seek this out.”

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