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“That still binds you in this realo back on a pro”
Acheron stiffened “I didn’t tell you any such thing”
Nick held his hands up to caler that caused Acheron’s eyes to turn as red as Xirena’s “True or false You can’t break a proain, Acheron hesitated before he answered “True”
“Okay” Nick took a deep breath and braced himself for the worst, because he didn’t think Ash would handle this neell “I really aripped hih force to round out from his constricted throat
“Don’t lie! You’re human!”
“Separated from my body”
“Yes, you’re about to be”
Nick shook his head “Seriously, dude? I tell you the truth and this is how you do rip left his neck so fast that he almost fell
Acheron’s eyes returned to silver as he paced a s his neck, Nick put some distance between them Not that it really mattered, but it made him feel a little more in control “Somehow, someone separated me from my body and sent me here, into your real me it’s not yours?”
Nick held his aroofier in s to some human kid I never knew existed until I woke up as him I think he was sent into the past to live in my body and I was yanked here to this realm to be inside his But he does have the better wardrobe Props to his mom”
Acheron cursed “And the Areliet to you Care to tell me why?”
“I’m the Malachai?”
The red returned to Acheron’s eyes
“Dude, look, I don’t know Okay? I don’t knohat they are so I can’t even begin to guess why they’re here forwants to eat or capture estion, I’ else, like an pacing again “That does explain Thorn’s interest”
“He’s into nored his comment “As the Malachai, you have the ability to command him in this dimension”
“Really? ’Cause I told him to leave , Ash had an expression on his face of confusion mixed with severe intestinal woe “The composer? Why would he play his music?”
Wow, for an ancient beast who’d probably had dinner with the man, Acheron could be remarkably obtuse “No Thorn played deaf Like Beethoven”
Snorting, Acheron shook his head “Where are your powers?”
“Wish I knew Wish I had theht when my father died”
Acheron curled his lip as if he was standing knee-deep in a sewer “Why?”
“Forso any of us wanted was for me to have even more psychic crap I couldn’t control I could’ve put… Maybe even added one or two”
That only seemed to confuse Ash more “You haven’t had your powers from birth?”
“No I had no idea I was a Malachai’s son until a few ” Ash paused to scowl at him “And what deaped at the news “Why?”
“Why what?”
“Why would a Malachai procreate with a hued “Pretty sure he didn’t mean to He definitely didn’t think much of me Other than the male fruit of his loins was a keen disappoint “In your realm, you were raised alone? An orphan?”
“No I live with my mother”
“Who hates you”
Nick sneered at the assumption Which actually wasn’t that farfetched The Malachai was supposed to be hated by his maternal unit But it ticked hi bad about his saintly ot and she loves ”
Acheron shook his head “You are a total freak of nature”
“Excusez, pischouette! Have you looked in a mirror lately? You wouldn’t exactly win any nored through the whole freak forest, and went back in for a second row”
Incredulous, Acheron arched his brow “Did you just call ot out of what I just said?”
“No I heard every word, I’m only stunned you dared insult me so”
“Yeah, well, in case you haven’t noticed, fear ain’t exactly my friend I don’t invite it into my house or sit with it at lunch, so it leaves me alone”
Ash rubbed at his brow “And yet you’re half hu?”
“You should never have survived with Malachai blood Hu one before”
“If youAn angel in human form There’s no one else like her”
“She’d have to be someone special to love a child conceived like you had to have been”
That would have stungheavy in Nick’s heart “She never even told me I knew she had no love of my father, but I assuiven any indication that I was different from any other wanted baby born to parents who dated each other” Tears choked hiht back to all the tiive his so that he wouldn’t kno poor they really were
All the ti in the world to her
“You really do love your mother,” Acheron breathed in disbelief