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I don’t know what it is about him, but immediately I feel the instinct to submit, and I think the same sensation wraps around Amarah. Her arms stiffen at her sides, and she bites her bottom lip.

“Not here in the kitchen…” she whispers. “Please.”

Chapter 55

I’ve never feared having a heart attack—until now. The damn organ feels ready to hurl itself up my throat, especially as the two of them stare at me expectantly, like they think I might run. As if I could outrun a Vampire and an Incubus.

Pfft.

We moved this conversation to the bedroom. I suggested outside, but that felt too exposed, and Kayn made a comment about bending me over to spank me if I tried lying.

I’ve come to learn he isn’t joking, and that spank probably wouldn’t be for pleasure.

“Sit, dollface.”

I do as he says, settling on the edge of the bed. They both stay a few feet away, but they’re still intimidating. Kayn stands with his arms crossed over his chest, his tight white shirt straining over his torso. Lucifer keeps one hand tucked into the pocket of his sweats, his head tilted as he waits.

Taking a deep breath, I press my lips together. Where to start…

“You already know I’m a Yldarwright, but we aren’t all the same. There are purebloods and non-purebloods. We don’t see either as lesser, but there are significant… power differences between the two. I’m of the former.”

“What constitutes pure and non?”

“Purebloods are direct descendants of the first Yldarwrights to inhabit Earth.”

I focus specifically on Kayn, because he didn’t even know my kind existed until he met me. He doesn’t even flinch at that information, so I continue.

“My parents were just over two millennia old when they were killed.” His eyes widen at that. “I’ve only lived for twenty-seven of them…”

“I absolutely hate the way you say that,” he groans.

“I was technically born one thousand, five hundred years ago, but was put into a deep sleep where I didn’t age.”

“Suppose that explains how you were able to wield magic strong enough to blow off my father’s arm,” Lucifer murmurs, his eyes moving between mine.

“Why? Did they do that to your other siblings?” I just know that Kayn is trying his best to hold it together. I’ve withheld so much about myself, and I try to convince myself that he’ll forgive me for it, even if this all feels like the beginning of a bad breakup.

“No. My situation was complicated.”

“Why would they do that to you?”

I move my head between a nod, and a shake. “Balance. Do you know where Yldarwrights originate from?”

“Legend has it that Vendra swallowed a mortal male and female, and gave birth to twins; a boy and a girl.”

“That’s fucking stupid,” Kayn says as he begins to pace.

“It is, because we don’t originate from Earth.” My unpassable Vampire slowly turns his head back to me. He and Luce both look dumbfounded. “Remember when I took you ‘home’? Yeah, I quite literally took you home. Off this planet.”

“You’re telling me I’ve fucked an alien?”

I don’t know if he is saying that for me to laugh or not, but because Lucifer slightly does, I can’t help but huff out light chuckle. “Sure.”

“But you look… Mundane.” Kayn sounds like he’s having a hard time believing me.

“Ignorant to think this is the only planet with lifeforms that look like you. Do you think you all came from here? That the bullshit story of Adam and Eve was real? It may be so, but odds are it’s not. Anyways, we could talk on that forever, let me get to the point.

“I was born on this world, but in that catatonic state my mind was placed on my peoples’ world—Solara. My kind can live a normal Mundane life if we don’t cast the immortality spell, which my people do more often than not. Twenty-seven, nearly twenty-eight years ago now, I was woken. It’s dangerous to have too many purebloods connected to Vendra, but when my siblings decided they no longer wanted immortality, I had a chance at living.”