Chapter 37
So, our mate was Medusa, and she accidentally turned us to stone. We were going to have to work on trust and communication. If we had told her Di sent us, she might have told us she was Medusa instead of just telling us to leave her there. We could have explained the bearded guy and the necklaces he gave us so she knew it was safe. And Pax could have put them on us before we went storming the castle. We’d kind of forgotten about them.
I still didn’t know who Di and his friends were. They were eccentric as fuck. Medusa was thousands of years old and the Greeks hadn’t exactly been kind to her. She could have picked these guys up anywhere.
And damn. The intense goth guy had brought his wife. She was this petite, innocent-looking thing with her blonde hair in ponytails. She was wearing a light-pink sundress with unicorns and pixies on it to a slaughter. But when I looked close enough, those unicorns were definitely violating the pixies with their horns.
She was much smaller than the other three guys, who chose to appear to this in three-piece suits. I was just getting vibes off of her that she was the most dangerous out of all of them.
They were all watching me with Medusa cradled in my arms and they looked happy about it. Benji stuck his head in her cell to see if there was anything we needed to take. I doubted it.
“Hey, we doing anything with the fake nun statue in there? Love your work, little monster, but Pax can change her back if you’ve got regrets.”
“No,” Medusa snarled weakly. “She kept forgetting to feed me and she was just nasty. I tricked her into my cell and turned her to stone. They gassed us and that was when Hannibal showed up and started starving me for real.”
I didn’t know what Di was, but when he got pissed, he got this golden glow about him.
“Excuse me,” he said, straightening his tie.
I carried her to her cell since that was where he went. I figured she might want to see this. Di took his jacket off, folded it neatly on her mattress and started to roll up his sleeve. Medusa let out a little moan.
“What is it with men when they roll up their sleeves? It’s so hot when he does that.”
Yeah, it actually was. I could feel that Di was pack now that all of us were together and he was definitely hot rolling his sleeve up. He did what I would have done to get our mate back if there was a ward here preventing me from even seeing the place. But he also lied about a lot, including his name.
“Position her where she can see this. I don’t like how small she is since she ended up here, so don’t put her down. Are you watching, Medusa?”
“I’m watching, Di.”
Holy shit. His fist connected with the statue and it shattered into a million pieces. I didn’t think even a vampire could do that. Benji might with his shadows.
“That was hot,” Benji said. “Can we get her home? I don’t like the way she feels. We need to cook for her and give her a comfortable bed.”
“And a hot bath,” Medusa said. “They don’t have hot water down here.”
Benji was going to have to share when he killed Hannibal. Di just turned around and smirked.
“I’m sure you’re headed straight home, but you’ll need to get her clothes and other things a green witch needs. Let the Smith care for her while you two go out and buy things. We’ll be back once we’ve taken care of everyone else. You can’t go out like that,” Di said, snapping his fingers.
Before anyone knew it, Benji was completely clean and looked like he just walked off a runway. Di didn’t just dress him. He dressed him up and fixed his hair. I’m pretty sure he put a little eyeliner on Benji.
“That’s so much better,” Medusa sighed.
“Kat!” Benji yelled.
“Why are you screaming?” Kat demanded.
“The cavalry has arrived. Don’t know what these people are or what their names are but they can take you and your mates to your place or I can take you to our village to help bring the Coalition down.”
Her hybrid mate squared her shoulders.
“I want to bring these people down and Medusa’s cell was right next to mine. We had plans if we ever got out of here.”
“And you, little one?” Kat asked the demon.
“I want to go with you, but I want to video call my mom when I get there and let her know I’m safe.”
“Done! Grab the Benji train and I’ll proof you all there.”
I wasn’t letting go of her until we were out of there. Until I got turned to stone, I thought Medusa could have been a myth, but I thought she was dead. I tried to remember my Medusa lore. I didn’t remember anything about her originating as a green witch, but I did remember she was supposed to be beautiful.
She was drop-dead gorgeous. She had wide-set, green eyes that were framed by thick lashes. A cute little button nose and a wide mouth. The snakes were pretty, too. From far away, it looked like she had curly hair that was caught up in a breeze.
And the snakes liked me. They were slithering across my neck and flicking me with their tongues, but not biting. Benji and I were both used to snakes because of Pax’s familiar. Pax had always had an affinity for snakes. Pax had escaped with a group of people before, but the only reason they even got that far was because of a snake.
None of us should have been shocked our mate was Medusa. Now came the hard part. My mission for so long had been to rescue and heal Coalition victims. I had a chance to take them down for good.
But we also needed to help Medusa deal with her trauma from this place. Before we did any of that, we needed to get her strength back because if we had waited any longer and Benji hadn’t done his thing with Hannibal, she would have wasted away in that dank basement.