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Linking my arm through hers, she guides me inside where I find the Elites sitting at the only table set up in the center of the room. Adonis and Khaos sit to the left, with an empty space separating them from Zen and Xander on the other side. Three more chairs are available at the circular table and Malik and Talon drop into their seats leaving one empty between them.
I don’t see any staff as I glance around before looking at Rhea. “It’s so good to see you,” I murmur, tightening my arm around hers as we slow to a stop.
“I can’t tell you how much I’ve been worried about you, Harm, I—”
“Worried about me? Why on Earth have you been worried about me when I’m sure you’ve had an absolute clusterfuck of stuff happening to you.” My eyes are wide and my mouth even wider as I gape at my friend. How does she always do that? Worry about others instead of herself?
The scoff I get in response as she squeezes my arm before moving to take her seat tells me she thinks I’m the delusional one. It’s not until I’m seated that she braces her arms on the table and glares from Talon to Malik then back again.
“Do I need to remind you of the situation that led to these fuckers forcing you to go with them?”
Tension instantly rises around us. I could already feel it brewing beneath the surface, but now that the words have been said out loud, it’s taken everything up a notch.
Malik’s hands clench beneath the table and I instantly place mine on top of his, trying to soothe him as I search for the right words to explain everything to Rhea. “I’ve known the three of them since I was a child, Rhea. I knew I was never in danger. On their shit list? Most definitely, but never at risk.”
Rhea frowns as she searches my gaze, but she’ll find nothing but the truth.
“It still wasn’t the best of circumstances though,” Adonis interjects, quirking a brow at Malik and Talon before offering me a small smile, then quickly resorting back to a frown.
Talon leans back in his seat, scratching at his cheek as he considers one of Rhea’s sealed souls. My free hand flies to his lap, hoping to prevent him from causing anything to escalate, and he, thankfully, speaks in a calm-ish tone.
“What would you do if that was Rhea, hmm?” He looks around the table, taking in each and every one of Rhea’s men before he continues to explain. “What would you do if you knew she belonged to you, but you hadn’t seen her for six years.”
Nobody answers as my pulse rings in my ears, but the tension that was so thick it would take a knife to cut through it slowly dissolves around us. Not completely disappearing, but calming for sure.
“It still doesn’t—” Rhea waves a finger at Talon who holds his hand up, stopping her from continuing as he shakes his head.
“I mean this in the nicest way possible, but we took her exactly as we did and I would do it again in a heartbeat.” I gape at him in surprise before glancing at Malik, only to find him nodding in agreement. “Six years is long enough. I didn’t bring everyone together to argue over it, I arranged this for Harmonia, to make her happy.”
My eyes fill with unshed tears as I look at Talon, who places his hand on top of mine, which still remains on his thigh.
Nobody speaks again for a moment, letting the silence thicken around us before Rhea clears her throat and leans further forward over the table. “Harmonia, if you want me to get you out of here, just say the word and I’ll make it happen.” She knows Talon and Malik can hear her, but she doesn’t bother to look in their direction as she stares me down, but I’m already shaking my head before she’s finished her sentence.
“Knowing that you’re okay and that everything that went down with Zellus didn’t cause you any harm gives me so much peace, Rhea, but I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be.” My answer is truthful, my chest swelling with emotion as she slowly leans back in her seat.
“They kept you up to date?” The surprise is clear in her tone as I nod.
“Alexi did.”
Khaos looks at Rhea, who then tilts her head at Zen, like they’re having a private conversation between them before all five of them glance back at me. “If you say this is where you’re meant to be then I’ll trust in that,” Rhea says with a relieved smile on her face. “I just want you safe, but more importantly, I want you happy, Harm.”
My own smile spreads wider across my face, running from ear to ear as I release the breath I didn’t realize I’d been holding. “There’s nowhere else I’d rather be. Talon is right, six years is a long time. We have a long way to go and a lot to get through, but it’s time.”
Malik lifts my hand to his mouth, brushing his lips against my knuckles as I shiver at the contact. It takes everything in me to keep my eyes open and my groan tamped down. Instead, I focus on introducing them properly.
“Adonis, Khaos, Rhea, Xander, and Zen, this is Talon and Malik,” I murmur, pointing my finger around the table at everyone. “Alexi is missing but his importance is just the same.”
I watch Rhea’s brows pinch together slightly as she looks at me. “Importance?”
I nod, swallowing down the anxiousness that rises within me at the information I’m about to give them. Words that I’ve never really said out loud before. “Yeah, Malik, Talon, and Alexi are my destined sealed souls.”
Rhea’s chin almost hits the table as she gapes at me in shock, making Talon chuckle at the same time Adonis does.
“Destined sealed souls as in…” Zen starts the question I know Rhea is trying to find but the surprise has rendered her speechless for a change.
Rolling my eyes at the fact that I have to spell it out to them, of all people, I look at Talon and Malik first before explaining. “When Alexi, Talon, and Malik were named as the new Furies, they were also able to find out who their destined sealed soul was, and that’s me.” I smile, pride running through my veins even though I’m not truly sealed to all of them yet, but that’s not a topic for the table right now. “So, now we’ve got that out of the way, can we move onto the food because I’m starving.”
My cheeks ache from laughing with Rhea all evening and, as I wrap my arms around her, I can’t help but feel a lightness in my chest that wasn’t there before. They’re right, how I came to be with the Furies wasn’t under the best of circumstances, even if it is where I’m meant to be, but seeing my best friend, someone I chose to have in my life and who chose me back just as hard, makes me feel more complete inside.
