Black Swan by Kel Carpenter & Aurelia Jane

Author:Kel Carpenter & Aurelia Jane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raging Hippo

Chapter 19

I stared at Jake dumbfounded. There was no possible way he was anything more than another body behind a desk in Afterlife Resources. Not Jake . . . he was so . . . so . . . normal. I’d known him for over a hundred years. He was boring. And plain.

“Expecting someone else?” he asked, rubbing his temples as though a headache was coming on.

“I mean, technically, yeah.” It was all I could manage. I looked at my feet, massaging my head in the same way. This didn’t make any sense.

Dorian leaned into me as he whispered, “You said there were no such things as gods and devils.”

I snapped my head up. “If you’re Satan, is there a god too?”

He cringed. “Don’t call me that.” Turning to the side, he faced a door in the hallway that had not been there before. “Come into my office. I think we have a lot to talk about.”

He twisted the knob, walking through with Hades perched on his shoulder, not saying another word. Dorian and I didn’t move. I crouched down, feeling Ezra’s skin. It was clammy and paler than it should have been. Dorian kneeled, scooping my other mate in his arms. “He’ll be okay,” he assured me. “I’ve got him.”

In that moment, Dorian did more for me than he could have imagined. I was still angry at him for attempting to kill Hades and Jake. He had no idea what my powers could really do, and he made some terrible decisions in his anger. I would’ve expected Roman to lose his shit this way, but not him. When he picked up Ezra, the vampire he shared me with, it showed a strength and caring in him I didn’t know was there. He didn’t want to see me hurt, and that meant he didn’t want to see my other mates hurt.

He’d said I was the only thing they had in common. It was true in a sense, but it was also more than that. A by-product of caring about me meant caring for each other too. We may never live together under one roof, but I had a feeling when all this was over, we’d still spend more time together than any of us realized. If the world didn’t blow up, that is.

“Are you coming or not?” Hades called from the room they’d entered.

We followed them in, and the first thing I saw was Francine, Jake’s secretary. I raised my eyebrows in surprise.

“Hi, Fury. He’s already in there,” she said, casually nodding to his office door without looking up from her crossword puzzle.

I narrowed my eyes. I knew it. Acting like she didn’t know which Fury I was all these years just to agitate me. “Thanks, twat.” I tossed the insult at her and stomped right into Jake’s office.

It looked exactly the same as it always did.

“How can you tell me you’re the freaking devil, then keep this shithole as your office?” I asked, crossing my arms and sitting down in a chair in front of him.

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