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“He’s gone.” The truth settles in my gut like a stone.
“He’ll be back as soon as?—”
“I’m not waiting behind this time.”
“Look, I get you’re pissed because he chained you to the bed.”
“After drugging me. You know, I’d be fine with him tying me up. It’s the leaving me part that I can’t forgive.”
“Did not need to know the kinky stuff between you and my brother,” she mutters.
I grab for the hatchet again.
Nic stretches a hand toward me, and I flinch away.
“It’s cursed. You can’t?—”
“Great, I’m cursed too.” I rip it from the wall. “Just ask my family.”
“You don’t understand,” she says. “That hatchet is rumored to turn anyone who dares to wield it into dust—especially magical beings.”
“Good thing I’m not really magical. I’m just a weak human.” I slip the hatchet into a holster along my spine beneath my jacket and pick up Monty. “Now, take us to Theo.”
“I can’t,” Nic says.
“Sure you can. Teleport us. No portal needed.”
“Theo left you behind to protect you because of the vision the Cthulhu sent him last night. You should’ve seen how much it rattled him. He was convinced it was your future if you went with him.”
“It was agame.”
She shakes her head. “The myth of the Cthulhu says he brings nightmares, but they’re rooted in reality. That the dreams become true. Theo believes it. I don’t agree with his methods, but you don’t belong at this fight. You’ll only be a liability for him.”
What she says strikes to my worst fears. How I’m nothing more than the weak human who doesn’t deserve love because IloveTheo. Not that I’ll confess it to his sister when she just called me a liability. “I thought we were friends.”
“Weare. Which is why you have to stay.”
Nic teleports away before I can say another word.
I want to scream in frustration. All my life, I’ve wanted someone to love me forme. Not for whatever box or stereotype they cram me into. Now, Theo—my freakin’ mate—wants me to sit on the sidelines and deal with being left again while he goes out to confront the sister I know he can’t kill.
He doesn’t have it in him, no matter how big he has talked. He loves Gilly. He can’t go from looking out for her for decades to taking her head.
Which means he’s walking into this fight with one claw tied behind his wings.
I need to find a way to get to him. He wants to protect me whenheis the one who needs protection right now. From my temper, if nothing else.
My ADHD meds have kicked in, and I have mad focus. My demon won’t know what hit him when I unleash my cosmic crankiness on him.
Putting Monty on the desk, I yank at the first locked drawer. “Help me look for a way to Theo, will you? He keeps his secrets in here. There must besomething. If not, then at least maybe we’ll find a key for these cuffs.” Unless the bastard took the key with him. He wouldn’t, right?
Monty disappears into the desk. Such a good soul guardian. He can burrow like a champ, and with his magic, solid forms don’t stop him.
The chain gets caught around one of the decorative knobs, and I yank at the cuff. Chain links clink against the stacks of bracelets looped around my left wrist. I glance in annoyance and spot the summoning bracelet.
That’s it.
If I can’t go to him, I’ll bring him here.
