17. Medusa

F uck me. I wasn't expecting to get three new sisters in the furies. I'd just met them and they were already way more supportive than my sister by blood or when I tried to go to the Gorgons. I had no idea if it was just that they saw me or that they busted their ass enough in therapy to help other people.

I honestly had a feeling it was a combination of both because after the furies and my mates were through with me and Alecto told me to take off my glasses, I wasn't afraid anymore. There was just something soothing about the furies and having my mates touching me.

I just knew taking off these glasses was going to be okay. It was all going to be okay. I could exist in public now. Athena wasn't going to fuck with me anymore and Poseidon had forgotten about me. And they reminded me of something. I was a pretty badass green witch. I could have fought off anyone but a god if they'd tried to violate me.

I could just be me again. I was enough and I could take care of myself. I took my glasses off and looked at the furies. They didn't turn to stone. They were beaming at me.

"Welcome back, Gorgeous. The four of you might want to be delicate around your mate because jumpy furies who are getting used to their magic is how people's shit gets fucked. Someone startled me in a tavern during the Viking era and was never the same after that," Megaera said.

"That's because you shifted and bit his nose off."

Megaera just shrugged.

"He just went with it when everyone started calling him Ivar the Noseless."

"But yeah, she shifts you're a statue. So, keep things peaceful around the house," Alecto said.

"I'm a Smith and I'm blind. I think that's why I'm fated to her. She can't turn me to stone and I can turn everyone back if she does. I tested it in the bowels of New Eden Asylum."

"That's so romantic," Megaera sighed.

"Ignore our sister. She's never been shafted by a really hot spaghetti god," Alecto said.

"Seriously, can you introduce me?" Benji begged.

Was I breaking new fury sister code if I also wanted to meet him? He was so hot and that voice.

"If I ever see that man again, he's going to meet the bad side of a fury. I'm not going to hold it against you if you go to his concerts because fuck me, that man can sing. I'm just not going to go with you because I'll get arrested."

"That's sister code for it you go to one of his concerts, you have to boo loud enough for him to hear it at least once."

That was fair. It was totally fair.

First things first, though. I wanted to look at my mates without glass between my eyes and theirs. The glasses just gave the appearance that my hair wasn't snakes. It was weird to have their weight on the top of my head gone. I was used to it now, but I hadn't realized how heavy they were until I could make them go away.

Cas liked to have me sit in his lap and I wasn't complaining about it at all. He had a very comfortable lap, and I felt safe there. Dionysus had always been there for me, but Cas, Pax, and Benji had been more than amazing. They didn't even know their mate was the one they were rescuing, and they still agreed to Dionysus's crazy plan to infiltrate New Eden because that was just the kind of men they were.

And I'd been distracted with panic attacks, my weakness from lack of food, and then Athena popping back up, but the urge to seal our bond had been there in the background the entire time. I turned around, so I was straddling Cas. I wrapped my arms around his broad shoulders and looked into those ice-blue eyes.

"Hi," I said.

"Hey," Cas purred.

"Listen, there's probably a million things we need to be doing right now—fury lessons, taking down a shitty institution that's been abusing supernaturals, and then planning what we're going to do if the angels show up. But all of you are going to be a hot mess while you're fighting sealing your bond and it's going to help Medusa with her fury magic once you complete it."

"When the Coalition had me, I got sick. They took pity on me because I was a kid, but instead of giving me a proper healing potion, they prescribed me antibiotics. I peed out my butt the whole time I was taking them and then when they stopped giving them to me, I couldn't shit at all. It betrayed my tiny trust and now anytime someone tries to prescribe me something who isn't a witch, I'm super suss about it. Thank you for breaking the cycle by prescribing an orgy with my mate," Benji said with his hand on his heart.

"Uh, thanks. We're about due for a topside visit, especially if we're going to be punishing the wicked. Do you have a place to put us?"

"How do you feel about staying with an original vampire, her succubus siren mate, and her other demon mate?"

"Yes, please," Tisiphone purred.

"Down, girl."

"Oh, please. They're about to have an orgy. I can't be excited about staying with other lesbians?"

"Of course, you can," I said. "You'll love Kat, Jezebel, and Calamity."

Pax, my sweet, gentle, always patient Pax, picked me up and stole me from Cas.

"Yoink! Excuse me, someone said we could claim our mate. I want to do that now."

"I'm always up for an orgy, but you're eating more ambrosia first," Dionysus said.

"Yes, sir."

Dionysus gave me a dark grin. He always loved it when I called him ‘sir.' It was time to find out what my other mates liked and cement our bond.