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He gives me a look of relief, then curls into a ball on a pillow at the end of the bed. He keeps his unicorn with him, the toy wiggling its legs until it falls asleep with them sticking straight out.
I glance down at Val.
My mate.
My everything.
I’ll keep her safe, no matter what.
I wake to a knock at the door with Val draped over me. Slipping out of the bed and into a robe, I move to answer it before another knock might wake her. Montejanus still sleeps on the cushion with the unicorn’s hooves in the air.
Only Nic could make it past the wards to my bedroom door.
I open it, ready to tell her to stop being a brat and let me enjoy my time with Val, but her wide eyes and pale skin have me swallowing anything I might’ve said. “What is it?”
“There’s been another portal opening…and an attack.”
“Where?”
“The Valley of the Gods.”
“Fuck, if something happens to the sleeping gods, it could open the pits of the After Worlds, the pits where?—”
“Where Gilly is trapped.”
“We’ll stop the portal attack and save our sister.”
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
Val
“I’m coming with you.” I don’t mean to eavesdrop, but it’s not my fault Theo left the bedroom door cracked, and seriously with the number of supernatural ears usually surrounding them, Theo and Nic should’ve expectedsomeoneto notice they were planning to go somewhere intimidating enough to be called the Valley of the Gods.
Nic shakes her head. “It’s too dangerous.”
I shove the door open. I might be wearing nothing more than a sheet, glittery boots, and a lab coat—yeah, Theo and I will need to discussthatkink—but I’m not getting left out of this conversation. “I?—”
“She’s coming with us,” Theo says.
“Yeah, I’m…what?” I couldn’t have heard him right.
Nic’s wide eyes meet mine. “I second that withwhat the fuck? What happened to keeping your mate tucked safely behind a million wards and threatening to kill me for having her practice her magic on Cousin Reginald?”
“I still haven’t forgiven you for that,” Theo tells her. “But I promised Val I wouldn’t leave her again, and we have to make this trip because?—”
“The fate of the world’s at stake,” she says. “Isn’t it always?” She glances to me. “Ready to roll out your magic on an epic level?”
I clutch the sheet to my chest where the burn might be healed, but the memory of the pain lingers. “I can try?—”
“No.” Theo goes into full bossy prince mode. Just when I thought he’d quit ordering me around. I barely open my mouth when he says, “Not until we figure out a way for you to use your magic without hurting yourself. The healing potion hardly touched that burn.”
“Oh my gods,” Nic says. “Are you okay?”
“I am now,” I say, not wanting to fill Theo’s sister in on the details of how we played doctor. I mean the lab coat I’m wearing on top of a gathered sheet has to be clue enough.
“Allbetter.” Theo winks at me.
“Ew.” Nic wrinkles her nose. “I could’ve gone forever without knowing that.”
