After a few moments, the guards motioned with their guns, and the prisoners started walking away after a quick glance back at Titus and Lucius.
“Did you know?” Titus asked.
Lucius shook his head. There was no way he’d known that the man that he’d been calling Rem was actually Remus.
“Do you think he’s actually the brother of Romulus?” Lucius asked. For one thing, Remus certainly wasn’t another Pale Man.
Titus shrugged. “It’s too coincidental to think otherwise, and after everything that’s just happened, I’m not taking any chances.”
“So what do we do now?” Lucius asked.
Titus shook his head. “For now we worry about Hannah. We’ll just hope she gets through this and deal with the rest later.”
* * *
Hannah woke up to shouting. It wouldn’t be the first time, but her head thumped to the noise.
“What’s going on?” she croaked.
“She’s awake,” Lucius said. Hannah turned her head to see Titus standing at the foot of her bed.
“Hi, Hannah,” he said.
She frowned. Something must be really wrong if he was bringing out the niceties.
“What’s going on?” she asked.
“What’s going on is that some people would like to turn my clinic into a meeting room,” Rachel said with a glare.
“What am I supposed to do?” Titus asked. “Several of my key people are already here.”
Hannah tried to sit up but groaned in pain.
“Take these,” Rachel said. “You’re very lucky to have made it through the operation.”
“From what I hear she’s lucky to have made it out of there. Things might have been very different if Jenna and Major Carter hadn’t followed the signal,” Titus said.
Hannah glanced around the room.
“Where are Rem and Justus?”
Everyone looked at one another.
Hannah frowned. Something was going on, and they didn’t want her know about it.
“They put them in lock up,” Rachel said plainly.
Hannah blinked. “What?”
“It’s not like that,” Lucius said. “Rem is Remus.”
He stared at her as if she would know that name.
“There is a story,” Titus said. “The two brothers who founded Rome, Romulus and Remus. However, there was trouble between the two. Eventually, Romulus becomes so jealous he had his brother killed.”
“So Rem is his brother?” she asked.
“Possibly,” Titus said. “I’m not going to give him free run of the place until I know the truth.”
Hannah frowned.
“But wouldn’t that make all of you brothers?”
The men paused and looked between one another.
“Titus will talk to both of them when he gets the time,” Lucius said. “Until then, it’s the safest thing we can do.”
Hannah sighed. It just didn’t seem right. Those men had helped them escape, and they had effectively imprisoned them in a new home.
“So your bad-ass cred just went up by about a thousand,” Apollo said at the door.
Hannah grinned. “You think?”
“You got shot! It’s all anyone can talk about.” He grinned.
“All right,” Rachel shouted over the growing group of people. “This little lady has been through hell. Let’s let her get some rest. You can see her later.”
Hannah smiled gratefully at Rachel. When the door was closed and she was checking her vitals, Hannah just had to ask the question that had been burning in her for ages.
“What the hell was in that vial?” she asked.
“Vial?” Lucius stared at her.
She smiled and nodded.
Rachel grinned. “Did it work?”
“I’m going to say yes, but my question is how,” she said. “I mean I could practically see in the dark. I was able to run faster and longer than I’ve ever been able to.”
Rachel nodded. “As a Vestal, there are all sorts of changes that occur that mesh you with your man. In some women, this can cause some amplified abilities. Kate already experienced a little of that. I just amplified that a bit.”
Lucius frowned. “Isn’t that risky?”
Rachel shook her head. “No more so than birth control. Just in a different way.” She stood and moved to the door. “Now you both need to get some rest. I have a feeling things are about to get busy around here.”
Hannah watched her friend. Titus and the others said they didn’t trust her and even suggested she might be a traitor, but without her little boost, Hannah wasn’t sure if she would had been able to escape.
Hannah yawned, and Lucius couldn’t help but smile. He was so glad just to have her there with him alive and well.
She moved over some and patted the bed.
“You’ll hurt your side,” he said softly.
She smiled. “It’s the other side, and I sleep better with you by me.”
Lucius knew the feeling. He climbed into the tiny bed and let her adjust how she needed.
“I love you,” she said quietly.
It was the first time he had ever heard the words spoken to him, and she said them so simply. He wrapped and arm around her warm body and kissed her head.
“I love you too,” he whispered.
The words meant more than he could have ever expected. They were a symbol of pure joy, something he never thought he deserved or would ever have.
Lucius kissed the top of her head and sighed. He had the only thing that mattered. The rest they would figure out tomorrow.
A Note from Madison
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The next book in the series, Marius, is scheduled to be out in August.
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Author Bio
Madison currently lives with her husband and two children in the Valley of the Sun in Arizona. After leaving the frozen tundra of the north, she was more surprised than anyone with how much she has enjoyed living in the desert. Seeing as she stated on more than one occasion before moving to Arizona how much she hated heat, it was an odd move, but it seems her hatred for sub-zero temperatures and ice has won out in the end.
When she’s not writing, she’s enjoying time with her family. Madison and her family frequent festivals in the area, as well as local cultural events, and spend time with family in the area. In the summer, she is most likely to be found in the pool with the family and in the winter by the fireplace. Since both her children are autistic, days can be a little chaotic, but with her husband beside her, there’s nothing she can’t handle.
Madison has a full schedule of releases planned for 2014 listed and updated on her blog: http://madisonstevens.blogspot.com/
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