Polar Fates: A Reverse Harem Novel (The Drowning Book 2) by Skye MacKinnon

Author:Skye MacKinnon [MacKinnon, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peryton Press
Published: 2018-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

We meet the other Fates in the room I first woke up in. The girl, Airlea, has disappeared and I’m quite glad about that. Three ageless women are enough trouble already. Especially as I have no idea about what they want.

Somehow, woven white armchairs have appeared in the room that definitely weren’t there before. What a strange, magical place. I’m not sure I like it.

Lachesis bids me to sit down and instinctively, I choose the chair closest to the door. I’m not feeling comfortable around them. And it’s worrying that I’m having to do this on my own, without my guys.

To reassure myself, I think of how I’ve been on my own for most of my life and have managed to survive. If I managed to deal with my uncle for over ten years, I can get through an hour or so with the Fates.

“I believe Airlea has filled you in on the bear situation?” Lachesis begins without preamble.

“If she’s the one who wrote a note in the back of the book we got from the trading ship, yes. But she only said something about a guy having his thread detached and that you need to reattach it.”

Atropos chuckles. “I told you it wasn’t a good idea to send Airlea. She’s good in bed but not much else.”

She looks at me as if it’s my fault I don’t know more. “Let me tell you the full story. About two hundred years ago, a man called James Van Deen found out that bear shifters existed. Jealous of their strength, he searched for all the material he could find on them. There’s not much written down on bear shifters for exactly that reason, but he managed to amass quite a bit of knowledge nonetheless. Enough to make the connection between the Little Bear star system and bear mythology.”

“Somehow, he managed to coax Calisto’s son back down to Earth,” Lachesis continues the story. “By then, his thread was already frayed so even we don’t know all the details.”

“How did he manage to fray his thread?” I interrupt.

Clotho’s pearl white cheeks redden. “A moment of distraction,” she mutters.

Lachesis picks up the story, ignoring her sister. “He forced Arcas to bond with him, effectively becoming the human’s slave. Van Deen became a bear shifter just like he’d wanted – but he didn’t stop there. He’d noticed that just because he was stronger than humans now, they didn’t listen any more than they had before. He didn’t automatically get the power he hungered for. So he decided that if there were more of him, he’d be able to take respect by force. He wanted to be in charge, he wanted to rule. His solution were children.”

“He started to rape women, dozens, hundreds of them,” Atropos says quietly, to my surprise. She sounds sad, regretful. “Some killed themselves before it was time to cut their thread, but most bore his children. New bear shifters. But instead of the children of natural bear shifters, these were feral. They could shift as soon as they were born and their human side was only half developed.

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