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“You know about their magic?”

“I can see past it, much like I suspect you can. We share that.”

Ajax looked between the one with pointed ears and this man, sensing a connection like he shared with Finn. “He said I’m his soulmate. This magic has to work. It just has to. He means everything to me. More than my music even. I was going to tell him that.”

“You’ll still do that. Alaric is my soulmate.” Ezra lightly touched Ajax’s arm. “Really, you don’t have to worry. Finn is going to be up and cracking jokes in no time.”

“Cracking jokes?”

The guy’s eyebrows scrunched. “Maybe he’s different while on the job, but when I’ve been around him, he’s always laughing at something or another.”

That didn’t sound like his Finn. He’d been so serious with him. That and affectionate. Passionate. “He thought he was going to ruin my life,” Ajax admitted softly. “Make me give up my fame because I can’t be in the public eye and not age.”

“Oh,” the guy said, voice low. “That would be a problem.”

“You could maybe use glamours,” Dax interrupted. “Xavier can probably manipulate them to work on a human. At least I think so.”

“What?” He stared up at the huge ogre.

“I’m sure Finn must have explained about the magic we use to blend into the human world. You could have Xavier work glamours to make you age and then later you could reinvent yourself with one that changes your looks. Preternaturals would know but they’d understand. Soulmates are priceless to us.”

Finn coughed, pulling Ajax’s gaze back to him. Those glittering brown eyes, barely visible in the darkness, stared up at him. “You were going to give up your fame for me?”

“Oh my god, Finn, are you okay?”

He sat up slowly, still covered in blood but alert and watching Ajax closely. “I’d decided I couldn’t do that to you. Was about to tell you when the hounds showed up.”

“You had? You just decided something that affects us both?”

The others moved away from them and Ajax barely paid them attention.

“I love you, too, which means your happiness comes first.”

“Well, I’d decided I want to be with you. I still planned to create music, and I’m sure I would have figured out what to do with it. Did you hear what Dax suggested?”

“I heard. That solution hadn’t even occurred to me. It’s possible Xavier could make that work. I’m not sure glamours would work on humans, though.”

Ajax shrugged. “If it doesn’t, it doesn’t. If that’s the case, I still choose you. I will always choose you, Finn.”

“Music is who you are.”

“Yes, and I will always make it. But I will also always be a soulmate. Your soulmate.”

Chapter Twenty-One

Ajax

The fans had called the cops, so they’d had to hustle Finn into the house to wash off all the blood. Ajax told the police that some dogs had somehow gotten into the compound, but they’d chased them away. He had no idea what the preternaturals had done with the hell hounds’ bodies. The whole time he answered questions, he burned to be inside with Finn. To see for himself that clear, healed skin when all the blood was washed away.

Once everyone was gone and Dax was on patrol duty, Ajax crawled into his bed with Finn where he inspected the jinn thoroughly, which led to them making love long into the early morning hours.

He was about to finally drift off when his phone started up a persistent buzzing. He tried to ignore it, but it kept going on and he snatched it up off the table to squint at the screen.

It was Matt.

“What’s so important you’re calling me at”—he glanced at the clock on the phone—“two in the morning?”

“I’m at the gate. Let me in. It’s important.”

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