“In a fight,” Cole says. “But they were sure to kiss and make up after it.”
“Oh gods,” Devon says. “Seriously? I bet Lizzie was less than impressed with that.”
“You could say
that. Fortunately, it was overshadowed by the fact that the Faerie seem to be quite adamant that she and Sebastian marry and produce that baby.”
“It won’t happen,” Devon reassures him with a slap to the shoulder. “Apart from her own distaste, there is no way in Hell that Constantine will allow that to happen. I mean, Christ, can you really see him agreeing to let her sleep with Sebastian, never mind getting pregnant with his child?”
“No,” Cole says and with a laugh, he tells Devon of the fight the two of them had outside, which has them both howling with laughter, their bond to each other restored.
Liv finds them like that a few moments later. She takes in their laughter with a raised eyebrow. “I see everything in here is good,” she says.
Cole crosses to his wife and kisses her. He can smell Devon all over her and it fires up a lust in him which shocks him. He shifts uncomfortably, wondering what the hell that means.
“Yes, everything is good,” Cole says, and she smiles at him.
“Great, because there is something, I need to tell you both. Please sit.” She indicates to the sofa.
Cole’s stomach twists into a knot as this sounds serious. He really hopes it doesn’t have anything to do with Cade. Devon looks equally as worried, but she smiles at them with reassurance. “It’s nothing bad, just a bit weird.”
They wait for her to start, but she stays silent and starts to pace. Eventually, she says, “I wasn’t going to mention it, but I just can’t sit on this and not tell you. It would seem like a betrayal in a way, I guess. But we keep this between the three of us, okay?”
They both nod at her, exchanging a look that lets them both know they are equally as smug to keep Constantine out of the loop on something.
“Remember during the switch, I found out that Other Aefre had no charges? That you weren’t there with her?” she says.
“How could we forget,” Devon mutters and she smiles sadly at him. Cole knows how hard that was for Devon, to know there was a land where she was, and he wasn’t.
“I don’t really know how to say this, so I guess I’ll just say it,” she says, chewing her lip. “Other Aefre has just come to me in the library and asked a favor of me. She wants me to go back to her past and bring her Devon, to her present.”
Cole’s mouth drops open as he stares first at Liv, then at Devon. “What?” he asks as Devon remains silent. “You can’t possibly have agreed to that!”
“I did, I am going tomorrow to get him,” she says.
“Liv! The consequences, have you not thought this through?” Cole yells at her. He is not angry, just in shock that she agreed to do this.
“You have to go,” Devon says suddenly. “You have to.”
“Devon!” Cole exclaims.
“Cole,” Devon says calmly. “It’s all right for you. Your Other self is still alive, and I am guessing turned by now?” He looks to Liv for confirmation of this and she nods. “If Other Aefre wants me, I say she goes to get me.”
Cole looks back at Liv, who is looking relieved. She was clearly worried about what they would have to say about it. He looks back at Devon and sighs. “Fine,” he says. “Who am I to argue?”
The realization of what Devon just said hits him then. “She found me? And turned me? Err, Other, Other me.”
“Yes,” Liv says with a smile. “I don’t really know the ins and outs, but yes she went to find you.”
“I don’t know if that creeps me out, or what,” he mutters, and she laughs.
“I know exactly how you feel, but I was there without you both, so I want to do this for her. Any consequences are up to her to deal with.” Cole feels there is more to this story that she isn’t saying, but he has no idea what, so he leaves it.
Devon is staring at Liv and asks, “How come she asked you to go?”
“She said she hadn’t mastered the art of past time travel,” Liv says with a shrug. “But, even if she had, if she hadn’t come to me to tell me, Other, Other you wouldn’t have gone with her.”
“How so?” he asks.