Page 35 of Jay's Silence
“Doctor Raba noted an unusually high dosage of the knockout drugs they used on your trip to the island,” Og said. “But attributed it to your high BMI. Not a possible magical metabolism.”
“It’s not that fucking high!” I stated, knowing that wasn’t why Og repeated the info. “Fuck whoever invented BMI.”
‘You don’t think we love you,’more of Og’s stupid words from last night.‘You don’t love yourself.’
“Like we didn’t have enough reasons to feel bad about ourselves,” I mumbled, focusing on anything but what Og said.
Rehan side-eyed me and tried to step closer, but a bush in the undergrowth stood between us.
“Doctor Raba also,” Ogden continued, ignoring my outburst. “Under truth serum provided by the earth dragons, admitted he lied about the air dragons being responsible for his injuries. It was a power play. When his plan to kidnap Jay failed, he was going to use his fall as leverage. Moreover, he’s backing Tia’s claim that Tyson is her true mate… she’s ah, saying because Tyson slept with her after marking Jay, the mate bond isn’t correctly formed, which adds to Ryker’s mind control theory.”
I wrinkled my nose, not liking Og’s paraphrasing any more than the original sentence.
“You slept with Tia after you marked Jay?” Rehan demanded.
“Wouldn’t the mark have prevented that?” Lux asked at the same time.
Tyson spluttered. “It was right after.”
Despite my resolve to see this as a good thing, my stomach clenched.
“And just for a day,” Tyson continued.
An entire day?
“I was trying to get over Wiggles.”
Regret, he regretted it.
“She was constantly on my fecking mind. All I could think about was her, but she wasn’t right for my family. We can’t even make a family.”
I nodded along with his explanation, my head bobbing oddly in time with my steps. It always came back to kids, and it always would. It was nature’s way. My resolve to free my dragons quadrupled while an odd detachment settled over my shoulders.
“Tyson, stop talking,” Og hissed. The warlock halted, forcing all of us to come to a stop, and turned around. “Jay…”
Tyson growled, cutting off Og, and stepped around Rehan to put a hand on my shoulder. “Wiggles, baby, my dad picked Tia, and she means nothing to me.”
I shrugged off his touch and held up a hand: this was good.
And if I said it enough times, I’d feel the truth of it.
‘I will let you down. I will make you hurt.’
“I was something forced onto you,” I said out loud, letting the fucking song in my head play so I would stop focusing on it. “I get fighting back.” I didn’t look at anyone. I kept my eyes on the ground. “And I can’t make a family. You’re still one hundred percent correct.” My detachment grew. “Lux, I don’t think the marks prevent sex outside of the mate bond, but from what I googled, they shouldn’t need to because the lovers wouldn’t be interested in anyone else.”
Tyson clenched his fists. “It was her tits, not her. I wasn’t interested.”
Ogden swore in at least four different languages.
I looked up, blinking at Tyson. “Are you trying to make this better or worse?”
Tyson stomped his foot. “Better.”
Lux shook his head. “I’ve watched a lot of preteens mess up a conversation this badly, but never an adult.”
Tyson’s handsome features pulled into a confused pinch.
I patted the fire prince on the arm. “It’s okay. This is good. It’s proof the mate mark isn’t fully formed, which means I am more likely to be able to reverse it.”