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Sebastian walked up to me, clapping a hand down on my shoulder. “Efficiency, my friend. The hospital has been rather overrun these past few weeks, so I figured Adrian could spare a moment while he visits his dear sister."

Adrian didn’t have a fucking second to spare, but I let that slide.

“Besides,” Sebastian continued, “I don’t make it a habit to venture to places that don’t have sunlight.”

God of the sun and all, I didn’t blame him.

“You’ll have to go eventually, Sebastian,” Adrian said. “You’d work well with Persy.”

Something flashed across Sebastian’s face, maybe dread. “Even your sister may not be enough to pull me that far from the light, Adrian.”

Sebastian moved to walk past me, but I stopped him with a hand on his shoulder before I could even process what I was doing. “Get. Daphne. That. Tonic,” I sneered, half hoping the words physically hurt him.

It had been three fucking days. Not that long in the grand scheme of things, but this was a god’s health we were talking about.Daphne’shealth.

Sebastian’s shit-stirring grin didn’t drop an inch. “Patience, Lukas. You want me taking care with your fiancée, don’t you?”

“Yes,” I gritted out. “But pick it up. I don’t fuck around with her health.”

It was a risk enough to involve him, but we were shit out of luck with solutions.

Sebastian laughed.Laughed.My hand curled into a fist, ready to punch him in the face. Hisperfectly symmetricalface, as Daphne so loved to point out.

“Lukas,” Adrian snapped, catching on to how close I was to pummeling another god.

“I’ll get it to you,” Sebastian said, his voice coming out grating instead of its usual melodic tone. He leaned close, speaking between us. “And if you even think about punching me again, one of my arrows will find its way through your throat.”

The threat landed hard, his godly nature that saw a threat and pushed back coming out. But Sebastian only gave it a second before his grin was back and he was clapping me on the shoulder again. “Time to go. I have a tonic to work on.”

Sebastian stepped right through a portal a second later, a sharp snap of magic ringing through the air.

“What thefuckis your problem?” Adrian asked, standing from his chair.

Out of the three of us, I was probably the freest with my words. Dominic didn’t speak unless he had to, or he was responding to Rose, I’d learned. Adrian chose his words so carefully he ended up mincing them. I was always the one who spoke the most.

But now, all I could seem to do was cross my arms and grumble.

“Whatever this guessing game is, I’m not a fan,” Adrian said.

“Fine,” I snapped, taking a seat in a chair in front of his desk. “I found out that Daphne left because she overheard me saying something to Zale that sounded like an insult.”

The only reaction Adrian gave was a single blink. “What did you say?”

“I was talking about Nikolas and said that I didn’t want to lead but that I’d take what I could get now that I was here—meaning Daph.”

Adrian took a sip of the whiskey on his desk. “She misunderstood you? Thought the whole thing was about her?”

Jealousy snapped through my stomach. “What, is she talking to you about me now?”

Adrian’s expression hardened. “No. Daphne has been in love with you for as long as I can remember. It’s not a big jump that she took it that way.”

“How the fuck did you know that?”

Adrian barked a laugh. “I paid attention. It was clearly a crush when we were younger. I’m pretty sure Rose had one on Dominic too and just didn’t know it. But over the last few years, it was pretty obvious, man.”

“To everyone?” Fuck, I hoped not. If I’d been walking around with my head up my ass, that was on me. I didn’t want Daphne to be embarrassed for something that was my fault.

Adrian shook his head. “To those who knew her well. She’d tone it down in public, but when it was a smaller group, yeah, I could tell.”