Chapter 45 Liam
We clearly upset our woman because she didn’t invite me to girl time.
I could understand not inviting Lucian or Khalid, but I could paint nails and talk about boys with the best of them.
Shite, she was talking about me, wasn’t she?
I knew she wasn’t always mad at us when she wanted girl time, but I was a little petulant I wasn’t in the prophecy when I clearly had the most experience killing people.
Doris was getting bored because she hadn’t stabbed anyone in a while.
I was pretty sure Khalid’s jackal was planning some felony kidnapping to keep Sage away from all that.
In hindsight, I could see how that was fucking annoying. We needed to grovel, and I just knew the Prince of Darkness was shite at that.
“Someone find out if pony shifters are a thing. We need to get her a pony,” I hollered as I fluffed the pillows.
“You could just apologize for being an insufferable twat that you don’t get to stab someone and Khalid thinking she’s not the reincarnation of a badass known for being in the heat of battle,” Lucian drawled.
“Shush,” I said, placing my hand on his entire face. “I’m betting you don’t even apologize when you’re wrong. I know what woman like. We need a big grovel and a pony.”
“I don’t need to apologize because I wasn’t the one who annoyed her into leaving.
I was on her side the whole time. I was the one who figured out who Sage was first. The Morrigan was a God of War and Fate.
Of course, she’s the in prophecy. She’s not going to be wrestling snakes and stabbing void beings, though I’m pretty sure she’d love to drive a knife in Lola’s eye for touching you.
Sage can manipulate battles and foretell death, you utter morons.
She was sort of doing that in the trials. ”
“Yeah, I know that, numbnuts. For some reason, raping me was part of their plan. I haven’t done anything about that because I couldn’t, but if we’ve got a window and a prophecy, don’t you think I should be doing the honors?”
Because I didn’t verbalize that when Sage was here, but it wasn’t sitting right with me. The Fates didn’t help me evade the Irish Mafia this long and channel my fucked-up childhood into ridding the world of sex menaces to get me here and tell me I couldn’t kill the people who tried to rape me.
“I think you and I are supposed to be protecting Sage while Lucian, Mazen, and Adrian kill them. Lola doesn’t pay attention in history, but Radames does.
Remember when Professor Kane embarrassed Sage when she launched into her unit on Fate and the gods who could actually influence them and Sage was the only known reincarnation in the room who could influence Fate? ” Khalid said.
“Doesn’t her skin look beautiful when she blushes?
” I sighed. “But yeah, that’s logical. If Sage was fully awake, she could handle it with no problem, but all of us except the Prince of Darkness are still learning.
So, back to groveling. Lucian, you can smell her pancreas, can she handle me breaking into the kitchen and whipping up my famous chocolate souffle? ”
Lucian started choking and glared at me. Did he think no one noticed he always knew when she needed food and had snacks?
“I have enhanced smell, too. What the fuck are you talking about, Liam? We can’t smell internal organs unless someone rips them out.”
“She needs to destress more than anything. Stress raises cortisol, which is raising her blood sugar. Sage is managing it and magical combat is helping, but the sooner we get rid of Forsaken Ones and she can just focus on being a nineteen-year-old who just found out she’s magical, the better.”
“Lucian, you can’t tell that by scent, so you’d better explain before I shift and bite you,” Khalid growled.
Wait, a minute. I didn’t have enhanced smell, but I was connected to nature and I knew nature could tell when something was off with someone.
I pulled Doris out my pocket and flipped her open.
If I stabbed him, he’d heal before Sage got back.
He’d better not be drinking so much of her blood that he knew she was stressed and it was causing issues with her blood sugar.
If she wasn’t feeling one hundred percent, he didn’t need to be biting her at all.
I stabbed him in the leg before he could explain himself because the things going through my head put me in a dark place. Lucian hissed and used his vampire speed and strength to pin me and sink those fangs in my neck. Fucker made it hurt, too.
“That’s cheating,” I slurred because he was taking a lot of blood.
Lucian sat back and glared at me. Khalid looked like he was ready for some violence and I was dying to see the cop’s son commit some felony battery.
“I’m barely containing my jackal from shifting and tearing your throat out, so you have five seconds to explain how you know she’s having issues with her blood sugar and if it involves what I think it does, I’m still going to bite you.”
“I hacked her glucose monitor, you savages. I haven’t bitten her since I realized she was having problems. I’ve been biting Liam every time he annoys me.”
He had been biting me more than usual, but I figured maybe the Prince of Darkness was having a bit of a bisexual awakening and he was just flirting.
I couldn’t tell if I wanted to hug him or stab him again.
On the one hand, he was looking out for her and had been this entire time. On the other, that shite was private.
So, I had to make a split-second decision on how to handle this. I was rather woozy because the little Muppet took a bit too much blood after I stabbed him. It would ruin my reputation if I passed out trying to stab him again. Maybe Khalid would take one for the team and bite him on the arse.
“I want access to her glucose monitor. We should all be looking out for her,” Khalid said.
Wow, I was not expecting that from Mister Straight and Narrow.
Sage had been looking at little pale lately, but she also hadn’t said anything about not feeling well.
She told us her Da was an utter shite about it if she had a blood sugar episode when she was younger and her classmates bullied her about it, too.
I had her permission to kill her Da, but she hadn’t given me the names of those classmates. I’d get it out of her. But she was so careful with her diabetes and she knew her body more than we did. She’d tell us if she needed help, right?
“I’m not going to rat you out to Sage because I loathe snitches, but we’re going to talk about it like civilized men.
It’s not going to be an intervention because she doesn’t need to feel like we’re ganging up on her.
We’re just going to mention she’s been a little pale lately and ask if she’s feeling okay and needs anything.
Have snacks ready before she can ask for them, but I’m going to stab both of you if you make her feel any kind of way about having issues with her diabetes. ”
“I would have thought you wanted access to her glucose monitor, too,” Khalid huffed.
I flicked his nose.
“Consent, you plonker. That goes for medical information, too.”
“I get it. And Lucian, you can bite me, too, since you aren’t feeding from Sage right now.”
“It’s immensely more satisfying to bite Liam when he’s being annoying.”
Yeah, yeah. I was still leaning towards this being a bi thing.