Page 117 of Origins of Eternity

“Alexia?”

“Yeah?” Alexia said, having removed her lips from Sarah’s and their terrible excuse for a kiss that would lead absolutely nowhere, depriving her of not only what she wanted but what she had ordered them to do.

Cassia wanted to make this woman in her arms come and have her make her come in return, just as Alexia did the same to Sarah, but the two of them appeared to be no further along in their farce than they’d been a moment ago, when she had repeated her command.

“Tell me something. How did I end up in my bed?”

“I carried you,” Alexia told her.

“Why?”

“You were on the floor downstairs.”

“Why was I on the floor downstairs?” she asked, letting go of the woman and allowing her to stand in front of her on wobbly legs.

“Zara, I’m guessing. You told us she betrayed you.”

“Zara?” she asked. “Who is Zara?”

“What do you mean, who’s Zara?Zara,” Sarah restated as if simply repeating someone’s name would explain things to Cassia.

“Who is Zara?” she asked again, aiming a glare at them for their insolence.

“You turned her before you turned us,” Alexia replied, shifting until she was kneeling on the bed in front of Sarah, but they were both still clothed, which was unfortunate. “She’s been important to you.”

“Turned?” Cassia asked.

“Yes. Then, you found us one night. Gigi and Miranda turned us, technically, but you were there.”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about. I know howyouwere turned, obviously, but I don’t know this Zara.”

“Cassia, she’s been your number one. Zara was spying for you. Gigi was pissed because she wanted that job.”

“Spying? Why?”

Having spies wasn’t exactly unheard of in her world, but as far as Cassia knew, she’d never had anyone spy on something or someone for her. There would be no point. Her life was a simple yet magnificent one. She had beautiful women in her equally beautiful homes all over the world and more money than she could ever spend in her many lifetimes. She wanted for nothing more than a willing human to feed on and a gorgeous vampire in her bed.

“On Iro and Arwen,” Alexia told her.

Feeling like she was missing something, Cassia wasn’t about to embarrass herself in front of her two newest friends, so she cleared her throat and turned the woman standing in front of her to face her instead. She would need more of her in a bit, but she nodded curtly for her to leave because right now, she wanted to talk to Alexia and Sarah alone.

“You’re not going to turn me?” the woman asked.

“Why would I turn you, dear?”

“Because you’ve been turning everyone else. I thought it was my turn.”

“I don’t turn humans; not anymore. I haven’t in a long while.”

“Since when?” Alexia asked and then told the human, “Leave us.”

The woman finally left the room, but Cassia hadn’t remembered anyone other than her ordering a human out of a room she was in. The nod should’ve been enough. It hadn’t been, for whatever reason, and Alexia, who was brand-new, thoughtshe could just dismiss someone in Cassia’s presence. That would not do.

“What is going on, Alexia? You tell me you brought me here to my bed. Then, you didn’t want to fuck Sarah, and last I saw you two, you were going at it all the time without issue. You’re talking about someone I’ve never heard of, and you just sent a human away as if she were yours to dismiss.”

“Cassia, you don’t even seem to care,” Alexia said.

“Care about what?”