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“You know what’s happening.”
We turned to the fae as he sighed and crossed his arms over his chest.
“I have a strong hunch, but I kinda don’t want to accept it’s that,” Milo confessed as his eyes showed glimpses of anger. “Because if it is what I think this is, the Coven is in so much fucking trouble.”
“Milo, what does that mean?” I had to ask because he was worrying me. “If Willow’s in danger—”
“She’s not,” Milo cut me off and shook his head as an added bonus. “She’s alive and perfectly content which proves she’s not suicidal like she told me.”
“Why would she be suicidal?” Now my heart was doing that flickering skip rhythm which was making my wolf far too impatient.
“Can you stop asking stupid questions and just get moving?”
Willow being suicidal is not a stupid question.
"It was a conversation we had,” Milo addressed first. “I wanted to ensure she wasn’t suicidal, especially with me sending her to the garden.”
“Why would that be a problem?” Neo questioned.
“Because we planted the blood rose here,” Dimitris announced, which drew our eyes to him. He looked deep in thought for a moment, which was why none of us pestered him for answers, but when he got out of it, he looked straight to Milo.
“Fuck,” he cursed. “You wanted her to come here on purpose.”
“I did.” Milo didn’t hide his motives, which suddenly made me angry.
“You wanted to test if she was suicidal?” I snarled, and thank goodness Neo suddenly had a hold on me or I would have been punching the fae fucker.
“Am I wrong for wishing to ensure our woman’s mental health is on par?” Milo questioned with the confidence that proved he wasn’t backing down from this.
“She told you she wasn’t suicidal,” I stressed, using his previous revelation against him. “There’s no reason to test her with a fucking blood rose! What if she got caught in its scent and tried to kill herself?!”
“Exactly my point,” Milo argued and walked right up to me. I watched his eyes go crimson as red and orange flickered in the center of his irises.
“I grew up in the hood, Onyx. In a place where far too many of my homies told me they were all fine and dandy and the next thing I knew, they were hanging from tree branches or overdosing on fentanyl or cocaine. So many promised to never hurt themselves, but in the end, the weight of defeat and overwhelming uncertainty beat them to the ringer and they pulled that trigger before they could have a single regret.” I could see the pain in his eyes as he glared back at me. “I trust our princess with my life, but I don’t trust her with her own. Why? Because she’s the most selfless individual in our entire pack, and if the pressure is too overwhelming for her too handle, she’d never plague us with what she thinks is a burden.”
“She told us before when she was having suicidal thoughts.” I wanted to argue and not be proven wrong when it came to my Sugar. I knew her the longest, and yet Milo was trying to take my fucking place.
“She expressed her suicidal tendencies at the peak of an argument. Otherwise, none of you would have ever known. Do you really think after she’d perished and seen the consequences of her temporary death that she’d be honest with us?”
“She’d be honest with me,” I growled, but Milo saw right through it all.
“Push that fucking ego aside and think realistically,” Milo snapped back. “If you’re trying to make me feel bad for doing what I did, I don’t. Not in the slightest.”
It was Neo’s grip on my arm that forced me to remain silent—the tightness enough to make me focus on the pain it was inducing versus the argument at hand.
“Are you three finished?” Dimitris inquired. He really didn’t seem bothered by us fighting. Instead, he was studying me carefully, which only made me let out a huff and shake Neo’s grip off.
“How are we getting to Willa?” I needed a distraction for my own sanity.
“She’s waiting for us to figure it out,” Dimitris announced.
“Figure what out?” I countered. “Where she’s hiding?”
“When you play hide and seek, you have to seek out the individual,” Milo reminded me as if I didn’t know the rules. “But she wants us to acknowledge the elephant in the room.”
I held myself back from even asking another question. I was fucking tired of these games. I just wanted to be with Willow and not fear she was on the verge of death in a place I couldn’t reach her.
That I’d fail her as I had by not being able to locate her when she was kidnapped.
