“so, she’s…”

“yes, Mahina is most likely my daughter.”

“what!”

I realize I’ve shouted these words when they all whirl to where we should have been standing.

“well the jig’s up, thanks a lot mate,” Andrei mutters, undoing the veil.

“I’m not even surprised you guys snuck back in. It was weird how you all agreed to leave,” mom says, rubbing a hand over her face.

“dad is it true? Is she my sister?”

“all signs point to that fact. I didn’t want to say anything before it was verified, but yes.”

“oh, please. We both know she’s yours, you felt it the moment she slammed those shields of hers on you, that kind of mental strength isn’t exactly common,” mom says.

“wow, that’s kind of cool, means I get a little brother too.”

“nephew, not little brother, Blue is hers, you might as well know everything”

“what do you mean, she’s not mated, how is that even possible?”

“You forget that she’s very much human right now. Despite a few select traits, it might have been possible.”

“why would she say he was her brother though?”

“We actually told her to do that, a single mother, especially unmated from the human world would have sparked too much curiosity not to mention how we are,” says Mor her expression turning furious towards the end

I turn back to my dad to find him staring straight at me intensely, “you okay with this, I didn’t purposefully keep it from you.”

“Nah it’s cool, I’m actually excited, siblings, I knew we had a weird connection, Andrei even mentioned her signature was almost similar to mine.”

“Right, well you should all get some rest since there’s nothing you can do now.”

We all head back outside minds still reeling.

“well dude, at least you know why you felt so connected to her,” Az says patting my back.

“I can’t believe Blue is hers, wonder how that happened.”

Nobody answers Rain as we all head into our dorm, due to our varying statuses we shared a suite in the black house… something I had also failed to inform Mahina.

The elevator stops on our floor but none of us walks out, guess we had the same plans.

I lean back as the elevator climbs to the top floor. Once it stops we all make a beeline for Mahina’s room, thank fates, she had added me to her access list.

I go to open the door when I feel something or rather someone else’s signature inside, bursting inside the room with the others on my heels I stop short my jaw-dropping.

“what the hell man?” shouts Az, bumping into me.

“oh boy.”

“oh, crap.”

“shit.”

Keon turns those glowing eyes my way from where he was standing holding onto Mahina’s tablet and I swallow hard, fighting not to drop his stare.

“Well, look who’s all grown up.”

I feel my friends stiffen as the glowing beacons stop on each one, even Andrei, and that’s saying something.

At almost the same height as the dean with curly black hair flopping around his face, glowing amber eyes that turn red when he was mad, and a magnificent face and sculpted body to boot, Keon was a scary motherfucker, who happened to be drop-dead gorgeous, I’m man enough to admit that.

Decked out in all black though casual with his legendary sword hanging across his back, the legendary Elven warrior rumoured to shift into a dragon scanned all of us again, pausing on me for a second longer than I would have liked.

“We didn’t know you were back,” starts Az breaking the tensed silence.

“Uh-huh,” he replies, turning to the bed and flopping onto it carelessly.

I watch stunned as he lifts a pillow from Mahina’s bed and takes a sniff his eyes turning almost red as he tilts his head back.

“Are you here to help find her?” I ask.

I wish I hadn’t as those eyes snap back to me, do they have to glow?

“What do you mean to find?”

“uh, she’s missing. We are trying to find her.”

“who is she?”

“a new student who arrived yesterday from the earth realm," answers Andrei tilting his head as he scans Keon intently, “why do you care.”

Rain who has been silent the whole time smacks him on the head, boy had a death wish speaking to Keon like that, even my dad was terrified of him despite practically being brothers.

“So that’s why,” Keon mutters under his breath, then he disappears in the next second taking the heavy blanket of powerful magic with him.

“what the hell just happened?” Roan asks his tone reflecting how stunned I am.