Chapter 7 Sage
Ireally needed to learn to voice my gut feeling better and not worry no one was going to believe me.
None of us really knew Adrian. It had crossed my mind when he showed up and asked to join us that he could have a very tiny sliver of Egyptian heritage.
He could have been Apep trying to figure out what we were going to do to Lola for what she tried to do to Liam.
I just didn’t feel that Adrian was the reincarnation of Apep. There wasn’t a single thing about him that screamed void creature. Adrian just oozed life.
And I didn’t even have to explain myself.
I showed up with someone we barely knew, and they would have had the same thought process I did.
We had no idea who the fuck Apep was. It could be literally anyone because my father was Irish but my ancestry from my mother came from several different countries.
I still ended up the Morrigan. Apep could be anyone.
“Mate, welcome to the team,” Liam said, clapping Adrian on the back. “Sage is ours. If she decides you’re part of the group, that’s one thing, but if you try to worm your way into her bed and she’s not feeling it, I’ll gut you in your sleep.”
Adrian wasn’t even fazed. He just grinned at Liam like Liam didn’t cut people’s cocks off, wrap them in bows, and leave them as presents.
“Not into taken women, mate. It’s not a challenge like some blokes like to think.
Sneaking around for a shag is not my style and I don’t beg for sex.
If they aren’t interested, then they aren’t interested.
I’m also super into consent and my dorm room is right next to yours. You catching what I’m throwing out?”
“Yeah, but that’s part of a bigger, more dangerous plot. You could be killed or disappear.”
“No, I won’t because no one is going to find out.
People tend to tell me all kinds of shit I really don’t want to know.
Like, secrets they don’t want anyone to know.
I know a lot of damaging messy business about both sides of this school and I keep it to myself because I’m not a dick.
You tell me what’s really going on and I might know something. ”
“See?” Liam yelled. “I said shagging works better than torture. Fuck my Da right up the arse.”
Adrian just shrugged.
“Some guys are into that.”
“Tell him,” Khalid said. “My senses are stronger now that I’ve shifted. Whoever or whatever Adrian is, it isn’t a predator.”
“Are you a cute li’l were corgi with a bubble butt?” Liam asked.
“Only on the inside,” Adrian said with a wink.
Just then Ivar, Ari, and Alexios joined us.
Ari took one look at Adrian and his nostrils flared.
He shot over and started sniffing Adrian.
Adrian, to his credit, just stood there and let him.
Ari stepped back and started furiously signing to Ivar and Alexios.
I’d been trying to learn sign language, but with everything going on, I hadn’t really had much time.
“No shit?” Ivar said, getting into Adrian’s personal space.
He took Adrian’s chin in his hand and started turning his face side to side like he was examining Adrian.
“I mean, he’s pretty, but neither of us are shifters. Shouldn’t we have all figured this out by now?”
“Not to question two men who could definitely kick my arse and one I might be able to hold my own with, but figured out what?”
“Please, I could definitely kick your arse,” Alexios said.
I had no idea what was going on, either. I really needed to learn sign language because I had a feeling this was something major. A shifter’s nose was kind of like my gut. If they told me that they smelled that the sky was brown, I’d probably believe them.
“Ari scented you. If we hadn’t been distracted by Lola that first day and everything that happened after and you weren’t constantly surrounded by an army of adoring fans, we would have figured out you belong with us.”
“Wait, wouldn’t Adrian feel he was with the wrong team and that he’d been roomed with the wrong people?” Lucian asked.
Something told me Adrian got along with everyone and made the most out of every situation. He wasn’t like us. I was almost starting to wonder if he was the original incubus. Adrian just shrugged.
“If you aren’t an arsehole, then we don’t have a problem.
If you are an arsehole, I usually just walk away.
I didn’t team up with arseholes, so I’m not rooming with them.
You’re going to have to fight Raina. She was on my team and she thinks we’re soulmates.
She also thinks she’s the reincarnation of Hera, so good luck with that.
She’s not because the reincarnation of Hera is already here and is bloody cool, but she has that kind of jealousy from the lore. ”
“Well, clearly, Adrian joined us for more than one reason,” Khalid said. “We need to tell him everything.”
I hoped Adrian was ready for everything fate was about to dump on him because I certainly wasn’t.