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My heart skipped a beat. “And you just let her go?”
“I wasn’t there, and Ogden did whatever he felt was right,” Lux responded. “I’m texting you the GPS location.” He hung up without another word.
My heart pinched. This morning, I’d woken in my air dragon’s arms, only to sneak off to hide Tyson’s sex toys before I lost my chance. Of all my mates, Lux was the sweetest and the only one I’d not once let hold me in the morning. I might be dodging my guys, but they were not avoiding each other. Lux had to know. I’d even woken up between Og and Rehan in Ireland in a cuddly ball of sleepiness. Now, I’d singled Lux out.
Fuck me, I should have stayed this morning.
Except, staying meant admitting I wanted not just them but something more for myself.
This isn’t just about you.
I still had my silent phone pressed to my ear. I dropped my hand and violently swore in every language I knew. Caoimhe, who I’d promised nothing would happen to, went with strangers. Or they’d kidnapped her. I didn’t know.
My anger at myself turned on my guys. They were fucking dragon shifters. They were supposed to keep her safe and in sight. They had to have watched her get into a car and stood bydoing nothing. The nymph was only supposed to get information about Gorm’s Casket, not go with anyone. In addition, Lux and Og were supposed to be watching her, so they’d talk to each other.
I’d lost control again.
My phone buzzed with the rage of an angry hornet's nest. I looked down to find two texts.
Rehan:35.9747° N, 14.3429° E
Rehan:We’re all here.
My heart sank. They called me last. Someone kidnapped Caoimhe, and they waited to call me until after they gathered. Flashes of shame, anger, and terror made me stumble as I forced myself to walk to Cikku’s ancient car. My thoughts spun with what ‘ifs’ and ‘whys,’ but the truth was, until I got back to my guys, I didn’t know.
My ass hit the cracked leather of the driver's seat. I looked at my reflection in the review mirror. Hard, determined eyes looked back at me with desperation swirling in their depths. I started the car and sped down the short, turn-filled roads of Matla, following Rehan’s directions.
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
REHAN
Cikku’s little car pulled up along a crumbling stone wall. Behind it, a wire fence went up at least twenty feet. Yellow warning signs declared it electrified, which Tyson, bless his stupid fire brain, had checked with his tail.
I left his smoking body with Lux, Og, and Tenzin halfway up the fence line.
Jay turned off the car, leaving us in the pitch dark of night. The stars twinkled, reaching all the way to the inky blackness that made up the sea. On the top of a steep hill above me, flood lights lit the medieval fortress walls. Even in the darkness, anyone could see for miles.
I shifted my eyes into my dragon sight and opened the door for Jay, holding out my hand. She pursed her lips but took it, and I hauled her out of the car and into my arms.
“I missed you on our run this morning,” I said, keeping my frustration out of my words. “Did you find anything?”
Jay ignored the first part of my sentence, as I knew she would. Tyson and Lux pushed her beyond her boundaries last night, and no matter how much she enjoyed it, she was still Jay.
“Nothing helpful,” she responded evenly. “What do we know?”
I reported because that’s what Jay needed right now: facts. “The fortress belongs to a self-proclaimed jewelry collector, Drukpa Petit.”
Jay pursed her lips but waited for me to continue.
“Tyson found some basic information online. He’s a billionaire who made his fortune in gold. Tyson thinks he might be supernatural. He wrapped his aura around Caoimhe in a way Tyson can’t really explain, but we don’t know how to follow up on that.”
Jay tilted her head to the side. “You can’t identify supernaturals on the internet.” Jay pulled out her phone. “But I know someone better connected to our world.”
Whomever she called picked up on the second ring. “I need everything we know about Drukpa Petit.”
I shifted my ears.
“I’m unfamiliar with the name,” Jay’s vampire accountant said smoothly. “But I will look into it immediately. Should I assume you are now in Malta as there have been several charges to your cards, including one for six thousand euros at a suit store and five hundred at Dildopholis?”
