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Wait, no. I was actually glad there hadn’t been a spider. But I was more confused than ever.
“What are you guys—” I looked towards a mirror to my lefthand side.
I saw it.
I saw me.
When I looked into the mirror, my eyes were white. There was no iris, no pupil, just glittery, sparkling white.
I screamed, wondering if that was me in the mirror, or some sort of creature. It couldn’t be me! It couldn’t be!
I launched myself from the bathtub, falling onto the floor as I pulled myself out. I looked into another mirror in the bathroom, and then another. They were everywhere, showing the same thing. Showing me, and those white, white eyes. Those inhuman eyes.
Eventually Murtagh came to me and put his arms around me, but he looked scared, too, like I had turned into a monster.
And I couldn’t stop screaming.
CHAPTER 13
Caspian
I stood, unable to blink as I watched Zazie look in the mirror and begin to scream.
Her shock seemed very real, and that made me feel a lot better. I didn’t think I’d ever been so shocked in my life.
Because Zazie Henderson was a djinn.
It figured. I find someone I can actually mate with, and it ends up being an evil creature. Probably I shouldn’t even be surprised; I was well acquainted with how poor my luck was.
But I couldn’t help being surprised anyway. I was scanning my own brain for any beings at all that could have eyes like that besides djinns, but then I stopped torturing myself with the mental exercise, because besides the eyes, I could look at her clearly and realize that not many creatures were that drawn to gems and gold besides dragons and djinns, because our world was rife with such things.
Unlike dragons, djinns were assholes. In my experience, they were ruthless, determined, and frightening. They were dangerous.
Still, Murtagh didn’t hesitate long and stepped forward to put his arms around Zazie, who was still shrieking, because she had started to scratch at her own eyeballs. Apparently seeing all the color drain from her eyeballs had never happened before and was a very unpleasant surprise.
She didn’t fight him as he pulled her out of the bathroom and carried her body quickly into the bedroom, where he sat on the edge of the bed with her on his lap. He began to rock her, to try to soothe her.
But Zazie wouldn’t be soothed, couldn’t be soothed. She was still screeching with horror from what she’d seen in the mirror.
Even Miles came to make sure we weren’t eating her after all, but he left a little shellshocked. He had never seen a djinn—they were a scourge on my home realm, but here they were only stuff of very ancient legends, and Miles was unused to seeing other otherworldly beings; had only been cognizant of non-human people since 1917. Needless to say, he had to go have a sit-down somewhere, and I didn’t blame him.
I felt like I needed a sit-down too.
I lowered myself eventually to the edge of the bed and waited for Zazie to quiet down before I looked over at Murtagh. “What do we do now?”
“I don’t know.” Murtagh looked very distant, which I wasn’t comfortable with. Murtagh always knew what to do. Normally what he decided to do wasn’t something I was going to approve of, but he was a dragon with a plan.
“What do you mean you don’t know?” I demanded.
He looked at me wearily. “I didn’t know that djinns existed here, Caspian. Give me a second to think,” he pleaded, sounding like he was on the teetering edge of a nervous breakdown.
“Who would?” I asked, and I didn’t expect an answer. I meant it as, ‘Of course you didn’t, but what do we do now?’ and expected his answer to be something along the lines of chaining her up somewhere.
Instead, he straightened and seemed to absorb the question. “I need to make a phone call.”
“To who? Do you know many djinn-tamers?” I demanded sarcastically, gesturing to her.
Even I hated to admit it, especially out loud, and especially since I could still remember quite well what she felt like on the inside, but djinns were dragon-killers. We were toxic to them, and they were fully equipped to kill us, unlike most other things in creation. Sitting in a bed with one, and having my cock inside one, was not even something I thought was possible until now.
