Page 66 of Veiled

“Okay… I’m not sure why this needs to be brought up now though?” I tossed my hair over my shoulder.

“Well, because of last night and because of those.” He gestured at my ears. I went to grab them, and they were pointed. Fucking awesome! I clapped gleefully and pumped my fists. I had fucking pointy ears. All I had to do was fucking fry some fuckers up. I started dancing in my seat.

“So, uh, Jensi and Luca... I sent them here.” Wait what?

“What do you mean you “sent them”? That’s an interesting way to say you hired a couple of magic babysitters Kalen,” I said with a smile, picking up a knife from the counter and flipping it from hand to hand.

“Well actually, Jensi and Luca are…”

“We are from Kalen’s Fae rebel camp. We have been for over two hundred years, since the imposter queen took the throne. Except we don’t work like the other rebel camp. We don’t live in secrecy through covert ops and murder.” Jensi said softly, interrupting Kalen. I nodded, wanting more information, so I stayed quiet;life was getting juicy! I was in a Fae telenovela; I wonder who I end up slapping dramatically down a set of stairs.Someone snapped their fingers in front of my face. I growled.

“Can’t a bitch daydream, shit,” I grumbled. I deserved a mental break.

“So anyways,” Luca picked up, “we live within the Veil of Fae, but within our own heavily warded area, where women and children, as little as we do have, are able to live safely. For years, we facilitated getting our people safely across, into our side of the Veil.”

“Okay, so you said Veil twice, and I get it's pretty much like a separator between worlds, and the wards keep out not only humans but bad guys.” They nodded and smiled. “Got it, so why is your Veil within the Veil special?”

“Well, anyone who tries to cross it with a dark soul or malintent dies instantly and their magic, which is pure in nature, their souls were just stained, fortifies the wall. It is what has made it so strong over the years,” Kalen explained.

“Well in the words of Lucifer Morningstar, my British virginity buddy, that's bloody brilliant.” I chortled and the guys groaned.

Zane- Best sex ever.

Hudson- Yeah, we really must do it again. And again. The other guys can join or watch.

Zane- Once I have you all to myself for a few, we can make that happen. I love you princess.

Hudson- I love you too.

His eyes opened wide and I winked at him, I haven’t said it straight out like this without a joke laced with it, and I meant it too. He had my heart the day he had my body.

“Okay, cool, so Luca and Jensi are the good guys who came down to protect me. That explains them being so protective...what?” Kalen’s face changed briefly then went blank. “Kalen, what? Your face did that weird flickering shit when you don’t want to explain something to me.”

“Not now, we can discuss all this shit later.” He growled and rubbed his face. Oh yeah, there is going to be a fucking later alright.

“Okay, later, I’m serious. Now what the hell does all of this have to do with Squishy?”

“Who the fuck is Squishy?” Hunter growled, hanging on by a thread. Angry baby. But I was in good spirits today.

“King is my squishy, he is mine and he shall be my squishy.” King groaned and smacked his head, and I saw a mark on his hand similar to my swirls.

“I'll get to you handing out nicknames to men like candy and skip to the important part,” Zane glared, and Ryder chuckled. Grayson just stood there like a floating cloud of muscle, observing. I’m sure he was taking mental notes and making observations.

“Sure, pumpkin pie drizzle, whatcha got?” I said solemnly. He glared at me and continued.

“Well, this morning King knocked on the door and proceeded to tell us he felt like he needed to be with you all night and that this morning he couldn't take it and came over. Kalen, let him in after he noticed some markings on his hand and called him a sentinel.”

“Except he didn’t have those markings during the party?” King shook his head.

“No, it’s weird, they just popped up and I knew I had to come here.”

I rubbed my head. Okay, I needed a notebook here. Jensi and Luca equal Fae, King equals sentinel, and Kalen hires Fae babysitter. Sounds about right.

“What does that mean? For Squishy. You said they are normally Fae, but in this case he isn’t, right? Unless Mr. My Squishy-wishy is hiding something from his Queenie-weenie.” Hunter threw his hands up in the air and said something about making coffee before beating someone’s ass and I laughed and laughed.

“Okay, okay, I’m sorry. Kalen, please explain and then wrap this up because I’m sure you're going to shock me and piss me off. So, let's get to it.” I sighed, kicking my legs and looking around the room at the people here- I guess my new makeshift family.

“Well yes, typically, but you're not normal. I’m also not sure he has Fae blood directly, but what he does have is the mark, the magic and the innate desire to protect you, which you are going to need.”

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