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Brutus watches it all happen without joining the fray, his void eyes keen as they take it all in, and I crouch down to wrap an arm around his neck to nuzzle him.
My bond likes him a lot.
To hope to figure out a way to have them all without my gift detonating like a freaking bomb and destroying everyone and everything in my path seems like too much and yet… I’m really thinking about it.
Fuck, it’s all I can think about right now.
I don’t even know if that’s possible but, fuck, I need to try it.
Eğer hepsi benim bir canavar olduğum hakkında konuşmak istiyorlarsa, boğazlarını kopardığımda dişlerimle baş edebilirler.
“You didn’t need to do that,” Gryphon says, taking a seat in his usual spot down the table from us.
I shrug and try not to look as shaken as I feel. “I can’t help it. My bond doesn’t like seeing you guys injured, even if it is just a bruise.”
“He doesn’t have a name… or at least, not one Nox has ever told me before. He doesn’t usually leave Nox’s side.”
He keeps saying that, I’m not sure which one of us he’s trying to convince here. “You know what? Brutus is actually kind of cute. Will he ever grow up and become a fully fledged nightmare?”
North shakes his head as though he’s trying to clear it. “They don’t age, they just… are. Why aren’t you afraid of it? Gryphon told me you saw what they did to the Resistance, you know that it isn’t actually a little puppy.”
I forgot about all of the history with these creatures and immediately I want to protect Brutus, to shield him from them all thinking bad things about him. He’s cute and little and I love him.
I love him.
I lift him back up onto my shoulder and he blends in with my hair, disappearing into the silvery strands.
“Don’t call him a nightmare. He’s adorable and I would kill for him.”
Even Gabe blinks at me like I’m stupid, it’s a little insulting. “That’s a nightmare creature, Oli. That’s literally what they’re called. I don’t care if it looks like a puppy, it will eat you if it’s commanded to.”
I pull a face at him. “Brutus would never. You maybe, but he loves me. I know it.”
“I shouldn’t have done that. I don’t know what’s gotten into me this morning.”
He quirks an eyebrow at me and glances back down at my lips. “Whatever it is, I like it. Kiss me all you want, Sweetness.”