Page 53 of The Dragon's Warlock

“My memories are coming back.”

“Why the fuck are you just telling me this now?” Kirin asked. “This could be the key to a lot of unanswered questions and to helping us make sure that all the facilities are shut down.”

“I planned to call you tomorrow.” He’d had the same plan the day before. He kept putting it off. Now he had to let Kirin know what he knew.

“Bullshit. I know memories of Diem came back to you when you touched her scar. When did more come back?”

Gideon swallowed hard. “When we were leaving the lab, something changed. The gates opened, and everything flooded in at once. The bad, the evil, and the horrible things I did. I’ve done no good in the last hundred years. Tons of shifters and humans are dead because of me.”

“Wrong. They're dead because of Kael. So you did evil shit for the last hundred years. You’ve been alive for over a thousand. That’s just a portion of your life. And now you can spend eternity trying to fix what you did wrong.”

“What happens if Diem can’t accept it?”

“Jesus, man. She’s your mate. And you won’t know unless you talk to her. You’re sitting in this creepy house, thinking about all the shit you did and the reason you can’t be with her instead of the reasons you can.”

“You’re right.”

“Of course I’m right,” Kirin barked. “Now, when are you going to get your ass over to Kia’s and get your woman?

“I can’t yet. There are things I need to take care of and things you need to know before I see her.”

“Diem would want to help you with this.”

“I can’t take her away from her sister.”

“I think you’re stupid, but what do you need to fix?”

“Diem and Kayda’s mom is still alive,” Gideon said.

“And you’ve waited a week to go find her or even tell Diem her mom is alive? What the fuck, man?”

“It's not that simple. Kael told me to kill her. I didn’t. Some of Kael’s orders I fought. But I worried she would look for her daughters.”

“What did you do?”

Gideon let out a sigh. “I used dark magic to block her memories and create new ones.”

“How hard would it be to reverse the effects of the spell?”

That was what he was struggling with. He could try to reverse the spell, but there was a chance he would wipe her current memories and not retrieve any of the old ones. “I’d say it’s a fifty-fifty chance that things go as planned.”

“Do you know where she is?” Kirin asked.

Gideon had called in a few favors and was working on finding her location. Nothing had come back yet. “No. I’d taken her to California, but there are no hits on her name.”

Kirin nodded and pulled out his phone. Kia’s voice came over the line. “Have you knocked some sense into the old wizard yet?”

“No,” Kirin growled. “Are you away from Lucy?”

“Yes.”

“I need you to find someone, and you need to keep it quiet.” Kirin glanced at him. “What is the woman’s name?”

“Jasmin Rose,” Gideon replied.

Gideon knew it wouldn’t take long for Kia to find the information his sources couldn’t. The sound of Kia’s fingers on the keyboard sounded over the phone. Kirin sat with his arms crossed, waiting for his brother to find something.

“You want to give me any information on the person I’m looking for?” Kia asked.

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