Red Moon Secrets (Deadly Beauties 3)

Then again, he could be shifting the subject to keep her from exploding on him.

"Why didn't you just use your magic?" I ask, curious as to why they're still wearing all that blood.

Kane bursts out laughing when Mom shoots me a scowl.

"What?" I ask, genuinely confused.

"I never thought to use my magic, Alyssa," she snarls, angry sarcasm in her voice.

Damn. She's irritated.

"The night stalker opened the planes of the blood realm with the black diamond of Roth. He didn't mean to. It just happened. It can't be cleaned with magic. It'll take a long time to wash all this out."

Drackus winks at her and her cheeks turn pink. Oh...that’s so disgusting. Bile rises to my mouth.

"Are you two—back together?" I ask, sounding a little shocked.

Mom's grin curls up, and I groan as I smother my face against Kane's chest.

"We only split up to keep you safe, Alyssa. Then we saw each other in secret when we could. I remarried a few times, but only to keep up pretenses," Mom says softly, making my stomach turn.

A few, I scoff inwardly. She's had more husbands than a black widow—um, the human kind.

Shay walks in, and her eyes meet my mother's warily.

"Calypso," she mutters in greeting, standing taller than usual.

Mom stands taller, too. Is this a female alpha standoff?

"Shay," she murmurs coolly, keeping her expression plain.

Chaz looks back and forth between the two, probably worried punches are soon to come, but neither Mom nor Shay say anything else.

"Shower," Drackus says, wrapping his arms around my mother as he stands. "Then someone can fill us in on what all has happened, since we found absolutely nothing during our pointless time away. Our source never showed up."

Yeah—I'll let them have a second to breathe before I knock the air out of them with all we've found.

"I'm going to fucking kill him," Kane says for the hundredth time since he found out about the Aphrodite spell Gage cast on me. Should. Not. Have. Told. Him.

"Not if I kill him first," Drackus says, repeating the same line he's said every time

Kane has made that threat.

I sigh out, wishing I could find a way to save Gage from whatever wrath Kane will have. I won't let him actually kill him. Besides, I'm going to kick his ass first.

"It was his deluded way of keeping Alyssa safe," Mom says with a sigh, only defending the dark user to defuse my father.

I'm actually worried about Gage. The Aphrodite spell will only hurt him if we don't break it soon. And he'll have to be willing to break it. If he refuses, he could suffer forever. I'll only feel the effects when I'm around him without Kane. Something tells me Kane will never leave me around the dark user without him ever again.

"Where is Dray, damn it?" Drackus curses, eyeing his phone that has been disassembled to keep Gage from finding us.

He'd love for Gage to find us so he could shred him, but Mom made him take his phone apart. Thank God.

"He had to grab us some clothes, and he took the girls to see if they could catch any scents. They should be back soon," Deke groans, repeating himself—again.

Drackus is impatient, restless, and so damn annoying. Maybe that's the real reason he was banished to his pocket of the world.

Mom leans over and kisses his cheek, and he tugs her to be on his lap. When she giggles, I fight back a gag. Wrong. This is so wrong.