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Which made sense While there were multiple dimensions and alternate realities, they were all bound by the laws of the Source And those laws stipulated that only one Malachai could exist at one ti down the one through time wasn’t easily done Especially when he’d been hidden as carefully as Nick had
Caleb sighed in disgust “I don’t know about the two of you, but time travel isn’t one of my powers” He looked at Zavid, who sank back to the floor
The Hel Hound leaned his head back against the wall “Sauarded power Only a tiny handful of species are allowed it And Aamons aren’t one of them”
Because the repercussions were dire One misstep in time and the entire fabric of the universe could unravel Even the gods tended to avoid time travel, and woe to any illfully tampered with the time sequence It was the most forbidden of all actions
And the s, any action taken caused an equal and opposite reaction It hy she hadn’t killed Nick yet, even though she had every right to and had been ordered to see hi with the lives around her Hers was a sacred calling and it wasn’t one she took lightly
Caleb narrowed his gaze on her “What about you?”
“What about me, what?”
“Can you time travel?”
She intentionally didn’t answer his question Instead, she turned her attention to Zavid “What about your sister? She orking with Gri Nick to him Could she be behind this?”
By the shocked expression on Zavid’s face, she could tell he’d had no idea his sister had taken part in setting Nick up The pain and grief in his bright lavender eyes seared her and ony It was a pain she was all too acquainted with
His breathing ragged, Zavid shook his head When he spoke, his voice was thick with raw, unshed tears “My sister’s dead She died a long tio”
Caleb’s eyes shone with his own sy that h the day, knowing you’d never see your loved ones again “Grim must have resurrected her for some reason”
His jaw slack, Zavid snapped his attention to Caleb “You saw her?” There was so ht tears to Kody’s eyes
“I did She was trying to free you frole tear slid down his handsorily wiped it away “My sister was everything to me”
Kody had to look away as unwanted memories flooded her with pain She knew that tone of voice Had heard it from her own overprotective brothers on er?”
He nodded then wrapped his arms around himself as if he had a sudden chill “I swore to my parents when they were killed that I’d never allow any harm to come to her” He sed hard “I failed them all”
Caleb stepped closer to him with a pose that said he wanted blood from the ones who’d harmed a woman A throwback to the day he’d lost the only woman he’d ever loved to the hands of his enemies “What happened?”
A furious tic started in Zavid’s sculpted jaw “She fell in love with an idiot, and when he ran afoul of Hel, she sold herself to the goddess to save him from his stupidity Needless to say, it didn’t work out for either of them”
Kody winced as she realized what had happened to the poor Aamon demon on the floor “You went in her stead?”
He nodded “I knehat slavery meant for our kind I couldn’t let iven the scars on his body, he was right Nick had told her that the Norse gods had used Zavid for gladiatorial matches where they’d bled him to the brink of death That they had dehumanized him to the point that he hadn’t even remembered his own name when Nick had met him
They had called Zavid “Beast,” and a beast hat he’d becoh the feral hatred to the heart of the man
Nick, alone, had saved Zavid when anyone else would have put their head down and kept going, leaving the Hel Hound to die Especially after the way Zavid had attacked Nick and Caleb
And her
“How did your sister die?” Caleb asked quietly
Zavid sed hard before he answered “Zarelda tried to free oddess”
In that moment, Kody finally saw the true heart inside Zavid that had called out to Nick The Malachai was always able to see straight through someone’s façade To know their weaknesses so that he could destroy them more easily Up until Nick, every Malachai had used that knowledge to hurt and to wound
To kill
Nick used it only for good
There were so h she had every right to deh she was under orders to do so …
Trying not to think about that or her past, sheabout Gri useful” Caleb shifted his gaze to Zavid “You’re the only one of us who can suhed bitterly “No I can’t Hel stripped that power from me as punishment after Zarelda tried to release me I have no telepathy whatsoever Haven’t had it for centuries”
That closed that door effectively Running out of ideas, Kody turned back to Caleb “Know any necrorin “Actually, I do Talon can commune with the dead”
“The Dark-Hunter?” Kody asked tothe same idea path
“You know anyone better?”
Yes, but she’d purposely avoided Acheron Forto react if we show up at his cabin in the middle of the day? As far as he knoe’re hurowled “I’m out of ideas, then”
That left her with only one other option and it was the closest thing to Acheron she dared approach with sohter “Let hed “Good luck with that”