Chapter 306. Deceitful

CRIMSON

I don't go back and curl up with my mate. Instead, I open the old leather folder again. Taking my time to study and read each parchment. Concentrating on the ones we didn't get to observe.

I flit through the pages that describe the seven gates to the gods until I find the ones that hold the information I was desperate to know.

A few nights ago when Tawny and I were lost in passion, her nails dug into my skin and a bead of my blood fell onto the face of the blue stone she wears around her neck. Papa Armand's ring.

Something changed inside me, and I don't just mean being able to mind-link. The stone's magic gave way and allowed me to open a part of my mind that was shut off. Enabling me to tap into a higher percentage of my brain capacity.

The words don't tell me much, just that the stone allows the bearer to be the truest version of themselves.

I'm disappointed that there is nothing else. I'm disappoi