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“See, ye can be helpful, thank ye.”

Magnus and I swept from the room. It was fun to be the one doing it for once. Leaving Lady Mairead alone to think about what we just said. Mostly Magnus, but it was all for me.

49 - KAITLYN

We took a bottle of wine into Tyler’s room to tell him about the plan for tomorrow. He sat on his bed with a glass in his hand. Magnus sat in a chair. I slumped on the floor, bottle in my lap. I kind of thought I should drink a lot, I also didn’t really want to, but holding it felt good. Like maybe in a safer time I could drink the anguish away.

Tyler asked a lot of questions.

The biggest one was, “What the hell are you thinking? You’re going to fight to the death tomorrow?”

Magnus answered, “Och, aye.”

“Why would you fight someone for a throne you don’t want?”

“I will let Kaitlyn tell ye on it.”

I said, “My thinking is that any king that isn’t Magnus is going to chase us through time. And our children through time. Forever. But if Magnus is king, he keeps his children safe.”

“Even if they're from another woman?”

“Even then. I can’t ask Magnus to choose between me and one of his children, so yeah, we’ll protect his son. Even if his mom is a total bitch and I want to smack her stupid bitch face with her stupid fucking bitch smile.”

He joked, “You seem pretty chill, Katie.”

“Considering I just met the woman who is having Magnus’s child, yeah, I was surprisingly chill. I may have had a small stroke.” I took a swig of wine. Then decided I didn’t want to drink anymore and pushed the bottle away.

“That was like a reality tv show, I was expecting chairs to fly.”

Magnus joked, “I wanted tae throw a chair but Lady Mairead daena have enough tae use as weapons.”

I said, “God, when you called her out about it, and when you shook her chair and growled at her — I was so impressed.”

“Tis all it takes tae impress ye?” He shook his head. “She has been playing games with us for so long, she daena ken she is doin’ it.”

“I almost feel sorry for her. I mean, beyond the whole she has been trying to kill me part of it. She’s been surviving here, thriving actually, and the one thing she wants is to be a⁠—”

“Mother of a king.”

“And she keeps getting so close.” I dropped my head back to the wall, with a moan. “Bella is so beautiful. I can’t believe I’m going to have to live with that knowledge now.”

Magnus started to speak, but Tyler said, “I don’t know about that, I mean she’s pretty, but I don’t think she is prettier than you.”

I blushed and glanced at Magnus.

He was leaned back in the arm chair, his mouth leaned on his fingers, his brow drawn down, squinting at Tyler.

Tyler raised his glass to Magnus, “I mean no offense, I assume you tell Kaitlyn that she’s beautiful all the time, I just thought hearing it from someone else might help.”

Magnus nodded then said, low and slow. “She deserves tae hear it.” Then he said, “I think I need tae head tae bed.”

Tyler said, “I have one more question about tomorrow. When you go to battle in the arena what will happen to Katie? What if you don’t survive it?”

Magnus and I both looked at him without speaking.

“It is possible. I know you’ve won every fight you’ve ever fought, but it might happen. Why doesn't Katie come back to Florida with me?”

I shook my head. “Nah, I wouldn’t know what’s happening.” Then I glanced at Magnus’s face — he was nodding. “Wait, Magnus, I won’t know if you survive it or not.”