Rejected Omega Princess: Meet My Overprotective Brothers
“My first thought when I smelled you was, ‘oh, we’re in trouble.’ My second was, ‘Kael is going to be very annoyed when I drag this girl into everything.’”
Kael huffed.
“My first thought,” he said, “was, ‘this will complicate things.’”
“And now?” I asked.
He looked down at me, eyes steady.
“Now,” he said, “there are three lanterns. Different shapes. Different brightness. One constellation.”
My chest ached in a way that had nothing to do with scars.
“Poet,” Rian muttered.
“Accurate,” Kael said.
We fell quiet.
Above, the last lanterns reached the height where they were indistinguishable from stars.