My Sunrise Sunset Paramour (My Midnight Moonlight Valentine 2)

“Do not open the door for him.”

“Rude as always, brother,” Jabari spoke. “And here I have been polite, for Mother instructed that I did not waste time with words and merely bring you both instantly.”

“Bring us?” I repeated, still looking to Theseus for answers. “Bring us where?”

Still, Theseus did not want to answer. He just sadly looked at me.

“Jabari, you can come in.”

“Druella!” Theseus snapped at me.

“What? Since you won’t answer me, maybe he will!”

“She is right, brother.”

I expected the door to open, but, instead, Jabari just appeared in the room. He didn’t walk through the door or anything. He just appeared, dressed in a long, dark-blue tunic top and white pants. He was very handsome—which was normal for vampires, I guess—with deep-brown skin, eyes that were bright blue, and the top of his hair braided into an elaborate pattern of cornrows.

“Hello, pardon me for the intrusion. As I said, I am Jabari Dubaku Thorbørn.” He placed his hand over his heart and bowed his head to me once.

“Hello, I’m Druella Omeron,” I said slowly. I’d never really spoken to any other vampire besides Theseus and Taelon Swan, and those conversations were always at different ends of my emotional spectrum. I didn’t really know what to make of this. “You said you were ordered something? To take us somewhere?”

“To Ankeiros,” he answered, “our home, as our mother has ordered for you both to come. And she did so a week ago, Theseus.”

Theseus relaxed his shoulders and turned to look at his brother. “And I told her it could not be done. To wait.”

Jabari chuckled, shaking his head. “Brother, in what century has Mother ever been known for patience? The fact that she gave you a week before calling me is a testament to her bias toward you. Ulrik is already whining about the favoritism.”

Theseus rolled his eyes hard, and it was the first time I’d ever seen that look on his face.

“I don’t understand?” I said, looking between them both. “Your mother, you told me her name was Rhea, wants us to go to Ankeiros? Why?”

“So she can meet you, of course,” Jabari replied.

“You mean so she can torment her!” Theseus snapped, annoyed.

“Do not say that, or you will scare the witch,” Jabari threw back and then glanced at me. “She will not torment you. She has waited nearly a century for you—her beloved son’s one true soulmate.”

“Jabari,” Theseus grumbled.

“What? It is the truth. And be thankful that you finally found the courage to approach her, or else Mother would have kidnapped and forced her change.”

“What?” I gaped. “Kidnapped who? Me?”

“Thankfully, Father is wiser and would never have allowed it. Or else my soulmate would have killed my mother. She is not just any witch,” Theseus shot back, and I wasn’t sure if he was proud or concerned.

“And so I’ve heard about her and her little coven.”

“It is not little—”

“Both of you shut up!” I hollered. I wasn’t sure about anything, but I did know for certain I did not like them talking as if I were not here with them.

They both looked at me curiously as if they had just remembered I was here despite talking about me.

Shifting my glare to Theseus, I crossed my arms over my chest. “So, your family has known about me? Not just when your mother first saw me all those years ago, but now?”

“With our father, it is hard to keep secrets, no matter how far—”

“I was asking your brother!” I snapped, still not looking away from the gray eyes in front of me. “Well, Theseus? Tell me the truth.”