Page 59 of The Dragon's Warlock

Epilogue - Gideon

“Are we there yet?” Kayda asked from the back seat. She had her signature glare in place.

This was the same question she’d asked less than ten minutes earlier. He wondered if the woman was three years old.

He let the question roll off his shoulders. Someone else in the car could answer her, because it seemed like she couldn’t hear a word he said. Arrow sat next to her and grunted—his only response to Kayda for the last hour. Gideon almost regretted offering to let Kayda come along in their car, but it made his mate happy, and that was all that mattered. Gideon could deal with the crabby sister.

He was happy and nervous. He now understood why Kirin, Kia, and Conley were so different after finding their mates and bonding. The world had changed the second he connected with Diem, and he wanted everyone to have the same connection.

That was another reason he was tolerating the two in the back of his car. Gideon caught Arrow looking at Kayda with soft eyes before he schooled his features back into a frown.

“Is anyone going to answer me?” Kayda asked.

Diem reached over and grabbed his hand, and he glanced at her. She had a twinkle in her eyes.

Damn, I am lucky to have found the most beautiful woman.

“I heard you, Kayda,” Diem said. “I’m choosing to ignore your dumb question. You know where we’re going, and you have a phone. If you want the exact ETA, look it up.”

Kayda huffed. “Yeah, tell that to the dragon pushing at my skin.”

She still struggled with her beast. Lucy had worked to try to find a formula that would help her. Nothing seemed to work, and Kirin worried she would change in a crowded area.

Arrow hadn’t left her side, even though she ignored him or called him an overgrown babysitter. There was so much anger in Kayda, and Gideon wondered if it was from the change or from something that had happened before the change.

“Do we need to stop?” Arrow asked. He tried to grab Kayda’s hand, but she yanked it away.

“No. Let’s go meet and greet our mother, and then we’ll be on our way.”

Thirty minutes later, he pulled to a stop in Catherina’s driveway. So much had changed in the past day. Diem and he had gotten back together.

He jumped out of the car and walked to Diem’s side and held the door open. She smiled up at him as she climbed out of the car. Kayda growled at Arrow for trying to help her. She told him she could get the door by herself.

Gideon held Diem’s hand as they walked up to the small house. “Ready?”

She nodded, and he knocked on the door. Catherina opened the door. Her blond hair was tied back, and she had on a flowered dress. The tears in her green eyes broke Gideon’s heart—the years away from her daughters, even if she hadn’t known they existed.

“Stop that, Gideon,” Catharine said. “You brought them back to me.”

When Catherina opened her arms, Diem walked right into them. Kayda didn’t move. She just watched like a predator, as if not sure she fit in. Catherina didn’t push her. She smiled at her other daughter and invited everyone into the house.

They followed her in, and everyone took a seat around the table.

“I made cookies,” Catharine said, her voice shaking. “I want to hear everything about you.”

“Our sperm donor of a dad turned us into dragons,” Kayda grumbled. “So there’s that.”

Gideon squeezed Diem’s hand as she closed her eyes for a second. Nobody ever corrected or yelled at Kayda. They were all walking on eggshells, and soon everything would blow up. It was just a matter of time.

Diem said, “Gideon and I are going to assist Kirin with the things he remembered, and after that, we are going to spend some time in Ireland.”

Gideon had wanted to whisk her away after making love, but he knew she wanted to meet her mom first. And she wasn’t ready to leave her sister alone.

“I’ve always wanted to go to Ireland,” Catherina said.

His house outside of Dublin was huge. He had staff who kept the place up. It was also away from everything, so Diem could change into her dragon whenever she wanted and not have to worry.

“You’re always welcome to join us,” he said.

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