exactly as it did when we went back again.”
He is muttering to himself and I settle back down into the sofa. I am stunned. I always thought he must have been drunk or something when he said he saw the vision, but now it turns out it was these two. These two shaped my future. I frown deeply, as I am not so sure how I feel about that. Don’t get me wrong, I readily accepted the life he offered me without hesitation, but all the rest that came after was a bit of a shock, and something that has been nothing but a burden on me for a thousand years.
He comes to sit next to me and takes my hand. I look up at him and I can see he feels much like I do, only in that he had hoped to change his own past, but ended up changing someone else’s. We sit in silence for a long, long time and I determine that I have to get home. I don’t belong here. For all her easy, carefree ways, this is not the life that was given to me. I have a responsibility to my Empire and it is time to get back to it .
Maybe. In a few days.
Chapter 3
I wake up suddenly, fighting the hands that are gripping me. I could feel myself being drawn away from her world and back to mine in my sleep. I tried to fight it, but it was to no avail. I wanted to come home, but I just wanted one more time with Cole before I did. Constantine’s hands are holding me down as I flail and I open my eyes to find his concerned face looking down at me. My eyes then flick to Sebastian’s and my anger gets the better of me. How dare she! I have woken up naked in between my two lovers and that has to be how she left this body. That bitch! How dare she take my husband and my lover together in my bed. I know I was irresponsible with her men, but to do something so intimate with two people you don’t even know just smacks of gall. I have to concede on some level that they probably didn’t give her any choice. Having firsthand experience of the two of them, it is difficult to resist when they both touch you. Well, actually, it is damn near impossible. But I remember all the things I did in her body while I was over there and feel a small sense of satisfaction that I took her husband and her charge and left her in a pig’s arse of a mess to clean up with her Sebastian. Oh yes, she is going to have some explaining to do. Unless she doesn’t tell them what she did over here? She probably won’t, as I have no intention of telling my lovers what I did. Constantine will skin me alive.
My rapid, erratic thoughts come to a halt as I hear him say, “Aefre?” to me for about the millionth time while I just look at him. He is naked and looking like he has had a damn good seeing-to. Sebastian looks the same and my anger ignites again.
“What?” I snap at them and they both flinch at my tone. I push Constantine’s hands off me and sit up, pulling the sheet up with me. Neither of them seems too thrilled to see me. Seems our little switcher has been dishing out her sweetness all over the place.
“Aefre, are you all right, my love?” Constantine dares to ask me.
“I am fine,” I snap at him and he looks away and sighs as I climb out of bed, taking the sheet with me to the bathroom. I slam the door and then breathe out and slide down the wall, the tears pricking my eyes. Doesn’t look like they even knew I had left and someone else was in my place.
There is a quiet knock on the door, but I ignore it and climb into the shower. He comes in anyway. “Aefre, have you taken another turn? You seemed to be getting better, did we…we should have left you alone to rest,” Constantine says, his voice full of sorrow.
“Yes, you should have,” I growl at him, meaning he should have left her to rest. Maybe I should tell him it wasn’t me. I open my mouth to say exactly that when he says, “I’m sorry, my love. You told me that you had forgiven me for what I did and I was so happy and relieved that you had, I just needed to be with you.”
I clench my fist around the soap I am