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told them
they could go and then changed his mind. So I understand the
disappointment. But they made it personal and talked trash to me,
like I’m a servant or something. Oh no, that makes it a different
party. They will never make that mistake again.”
    “Wow.” Asia had nothing else to say.
Behind the anger and sorrow rolling through their link whatever the
pups said, it hurt Jasmine to discipline them. Better to bend the
branch now while it was flexible, than later.
    “Yeah, now they have these long
faces, but they’re cleaning up that mess and I’m standing here
watching. Rone came in and fussed at them for disrespecting me. I
don’t think they expected that.”
    “They apologized?”
    “Oh yeah. Before Rone came in, I told them
why I popped them on their butt and they apologized and hugged my
neck. David then told them to get to work cleaning up their
mess.” Jasmine chuckled. “ He is a bossy one. So much like
Silas, it’s scary.”
    “He has a lot of you as well,
Mistress.”
    “True, sometimes I wonder what will happen
with these four. Silas wants more kids, but these four keep me on
my toes, I’m not ready to have more. Maybe later, much later.” She paused . Oops, sorry I got sidetracked. The Goddess summoned
me, which was really cool by the way, and she told me I am her
representative for the mission you and Hawke are
on.”
    “She mentioned me ?” Asia’s heart raced
in fear and excitement, she couldn’t believe the Goddess paid her
the least attention.
    “Yes, and Hawke ,” Jasmine said in a
soft voice. “I told you, Asia. You are special. There is
something going on and you and your Mate are the keys for the
success of turning the war.”
    “Keys? War?” Separately, she understood
a key and she had told La Patron they were in a war. But those two
words in a sentence together didn’t make much sense to
her.
    “When she talks, it’s in riddles, let me
see if I can remember what she said exactly.” Asia listened as
Jasmine repeated her conversation with the Goddess.
    Closing her eyes, Asia went over in her mind
what Jasmine said. “ He’s loyal already, what more does he need
to do?”
    “Who is his Alpha?”
    Asia bit her lip before answering. “ He
doesn’t have one. We want to belong to the same pack, so we’re
waiting to come home and then he’ll pledge to La Patron.” Since
they hadn’t actually discussed this she assumed this was her mate’s
mindset.
    “Let me talk with Silas. That
needs to be done right away, maybe Angus can help but for her to
say it was important to happen immediately it must be.”
    “Yes, Ma’am. As soon as La Patron
knows what he wants to do let us know. Now, as far as merging, I
thought we did that when we mated. Is there more? Something we
haven’t done?”
    “I don’t know and I don’t know how to
contact her for answers .”
    Asia wasn’t surprised. The Goddess was big on
allowing her followers find their own path with a gentle push.
“ Okay, we’ll deal with that later. But this one… becoming a
Sword in truth, please tell me you know what she meant by
that? ” Based on everything Jasmine said, Sword in truth seemed
to crystallize the message.
    “I assume that once the two of you
completely merge, you both will be La Patron’s sword. It makes more
sense when you back into it ,” Jasmine said.
    “So Hawke needs to pledge his service to La
Patron, which should help us merge closer and La Patron will deem
us both as his Sword? Is that it?” Asia tried to make sense of
what she’d been told.
    “Sounds about right. I asked Silas
about the pledging thing and he’ll use Angus to do it. Is he
around?”
    “No. We’re in Romania at an old
castle.” Thoughts continued to roll through her mind over what
the Goddess expected of her. How could she and Hawke be responsible
for victory in the war? The Liege had decades of a head-start and
were committed to a cause grossly twisted over the
years.
    “Asia? Asia?”
    “Yes, Ma’am?”