The Grey God

She took a deep breath to calm her nerves and pushed open the door to the study, already knowing who was inside. Her mate, the White God Damian, sat with his adopted brothers, the assassin Dusty and the Original Immortal Jule. All looked towards the door when she entered, and she smiled. Pierre closed the door behind her, remaining outside.

"Come in, kiri," Damian said and rose, motioning to his chair. "We were comparing notes before the boys went their ways again." He squeezed her arm as she passed him.

"Uh-oh," Jule said, gazing at her closely. The tattooed immortal with cocoa skin sat forward, his magic vibrating in the air around him. "Spill it, kiri."

"When a woman looks like that, you really don't want to know," the blond Dusty said from beside him. With a complexion like hers, he was often mistaken as her brother, a similarity they'd used in the past to keep people from finding out she was Damian's mate.

Damian planted his hands on her shoulders, and she looked up at him for a long moment, feeling sick for more than one reason. The pregnancy had not been an easy one, especially not with the excitement of the past few months.

Now this, a fate where she knew something was going to happen to the man she loved.

"Something bad is coming," she started.

Jule and Dusty grew serious while Damian sat beside her.

"Potentially bad," she corrected herself. "There are a lot of different paths I'm following."

"How bad?" Dusty asked.

"Darian needs a mate, or it'll be catastrophic."

"Darian?" Dusty shook his head. "No way. If the fate of the world depends on him finding a woman, we're fucked."

"I have a bit more faith in him," Damian said, sharing a smile with her. "He's had another of his evolutions. You'd hardly recognize him. I gave him free rein to do what he needs to."

"How long does he have?" Jule asked.

"I think a better question is how long do we have," Sofi said, growing restless. "I've Seen some things … and there are some things so up in the air right now, I can't figure out what it means. What I know is that our fates will end up in Darian's hands."

"That doesn't scare me as much as I thought it would," Jule said.

"Scares the shit out of me," Dusty replied. "Does this have anything to do with the Watchers stalking Jule and me?"