Page 31 of How to Accidentally Become the Devil

“It said something about mate magic being able to stabilize an ill mate. If Luc had a mate maybe the mate magic could heal him.”

“He already had a mate. She’s dead, asshole. Mate magic won’t do us any good,” Oz grumbles.

“Well, yeah, but what if he has another mate out there? Serafina wasn’t his only mate. Maddy has four, who’s to say Luc shouldn’t have more too, he’s just never met them?”

“It does make sense when put that way,” Belz murmurs.

“So what am I supposed to do? How do I find his missing mates?”

“How do you do anything, Princess?” Oz arches a brow at me.

Damn him and his handsome, smug face.

Kneeling next to Luc, I lay a hand on his chest and will my magic to find his mates and do whatever it needs to to bring him back to us. My palm glows as my magic spreads across his chest and covers him, lighting him up from the inside. Out of the corner of my eye, I see Snowball glowing too as her head is on his lap. The light disappears almost as suddenly as it appeared and Luc gasps.

“What the hell was that?” he croaks, his voice deeper than usual from lack of use.

“Avus! Oh, thank god it worked!” I cry before throwing myself on him, squeezing the hell out of him as I hug him.

He pats my back as he chuckles. “Thank youNeptis. I knew you would figure it out… But how did you do it?”

Pulling back from my grandfather, I grimace, not sure how he’ll react to having a mate again.

“Well… you see… Zeph read in a book that mate magic can heal sooo… Um….”

“Yes, mate magic can heal. I suppose I should have taught you more about mates. I’m sorry. But what does that have to do with me? Both of my mates are dead.”

“I-sorta-used-my-magic-to-find-your-fated-mates-to-heal-you,” I rush out, my words running together.

“I have more fated mates?” Luc gasps. “But,how? And even if I do, the mate magic wouldn’t be able to heal me unless we were mated…” His eyes widen and I realize what he’s saying at the same time he does.

I didn’tfindhis mate. I just found out he hasmoremates and sealed the mate bond without him even knowing who his mate is!Oh shit.

Looking down, Luc pulls his shirt away and stares at his chest.

“Is that… Is that a mate mark?” I stammer.

“Yes,Neptis, it is.” Centered on his chest is a design of lines and swirls that look super similar to a compass on an old map. The edges of each quadrant are slightly more defined than the other lines and where there would be letters denoting direction on a real compass his has strange symbols instead. “I havefourmore mates?”

“Congratulations?” I grimace. I don’t know if this is good news or not, but it is a hundred percent my fault. Luc just looks stunned though, not angry, so I guess it’s notbad.

“Looks like I’m not the only one to find a mate today,” he grins as he looks at Snow and Fireball.

Looking at the two hounds, I see they have matching marks on their foreheads that definitely weren’t there a minute ago.

“Snow was laying on you when I sent my magic into you to find your mates. It must have seeped into her too. That’s so sweet. They’re adorable together, aren’t they?”

“That they are, my dear.”

“So you're not mad?” I ask watching Luc study the strange symbols of his mark tracing them with his fingers.

“Mad? No. Confused and more than a little overwhelmed? Definitely.” He sighs before digging into his pocket and procuring a very human looking wallet and pulling out a business card holding it up next to his chest. “Do these two symbols look the same to you? I think they're the same.”

“Yeah,AvusI think they are, why?” My confusion doesn't stop his rambling.

“And this one it looks like… I mean the bond even feels like… But it can't be, can it?” By this point he’s up off the floor of his closet and rummaging around in a random drawer. “I need timeNeptis, I know I've been unreachable but I'm back now, thanks to you, and I just need time to understand and process.”

I don't really want to leave him after just getting him back but new mates is a lot for anyone to process, let alone ones you've never met before.

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