Page 69 of The Time Of Queens

I staggered back until my back hit my desk, next to my brother. Someone who also reacted, as he gasped aloud.

“No… no… it is not possible, for she would have been killed!” I shouted, unable to believe such a thing could be true.

“Not if her reasons for being here were prophesied by Janus himself,” Lucius pointed out, being the one to add this logic, and I almost hated him for it! But I was too lost in my need of discovery to snarl his way, instead looking to Adam once more.

“Is this true?”

“She believes it is, my Lord, yet even she is still uncertain as to what led her back to this time.”

I frowned… Gods, but my Chosen One was from a different time…I was utterly dumbfounded!

“Which time did she come from?” my brother asked as I was momentarily struck mute.

“The future, my Lord, over a hundred years, I believe.”

“Gods,”Vincent muttered. However, I had a far greater curse hissing from my lips.

“Fuck…fuck!”

“And in this future, does she know that she is the Chosen One?” Lucius was wise enough to ask. Adam’s answer ended up being just another thing to nearly have me falling to my knees.

“Yes, for I believe she has been married to you for quite some time, my Lord.”

“Married. We…we are man and wife?”

“Yes, my Lord,” he answered, causing all the air to leave my lungs. Gods indeed, for it was quickly becoming a bittersweet nightmare. She belonged to another, and it just so happened to be me from a different time. Fuck, but I never thought it was possible to be jealous of myself but here I was experiencing it all the same.

But then it all started to make sense. For I had already questioned why sometimes she felt so at ease with me. It was because I was already her husband and she no doubt knew me better than any other.

“What are you not saying, Adam?” My head snapped up when I heard Lucius ask this, as clearly, he could see something in his second’s face that I was missing in the midst’s of my mental turmoil.

“There is more, yes. However, I admit to not knowing much on the details,” Adam protested, making me snarl.

“Speak!”I snapped, close to losing the grip on my fury.

“I believe this isn’t the first time she has travelled through time.”

“What?!”I roared, feeling my brother’s calming hand come to my shoulder, no doubt worried that others would hear…a certain maid to be precise.

“She mentioned a time when you were in Muncaster castle, and how the moment you knew who she was to you, you refused to let her go.”

I gasped, feeling close to erupting into my other form, for my Demon was clawing at me to find her and claim her instantly. As if this was all that was needed to lock her to this time. To chain her to this version of me so that all other Dominic Draven’s shehad encountered before me would become nothing more than a distant memory.

“Gods in Hell, but could it get any worse!” I exclaimed, feeling as if I had entered some Greek tragedy before even stepping foot on the stage.

“I believe the reason she ran from you that night was from fear that you would remember her, for I believe it was in the past,” Adam told me, making me shake my head, trying to get my thoughts around the idea.

“But I do not remember this, and I know it is not ever possible to forget such heartbreak as finding one’s Electus only to lose her shortly after,” I pointed out bitterly.

“Then perhaps she somehow created a new timeline?” Lucius offered helpfully, for it was the only explanation for it.

“Yes, but why? Do you know?” I asked, looking once again to the man in the room who seemed to have all the answers so far.

“I confess I do not, however there might be more she told my Winnie but with that being said, if this is information you wish to gain, it will be done by my means, not yours,” he stated firmly, for it was the only time he would dare to deny me. For he was acutely protective of his wife and, with good reason. Reasons I was starting to understand myself having just found my own Fated.

“No, for I believe it is time I gain my information directly from the source, as for too long has she kept this from me,” I said, making the decision to hear the rest from my little time traveling wife. Gods but just thinking of her as already belonging to me was playing havoc on my heart. All I had learned churred inside of me like snakes trapped in a pit of despair…

For now, I knew her plan all along was to leave me.

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