Merikh scoffs, looking away from me angrily, his jaw clenching. I look up at Caspian, who looks between my mate and me with a somber look on his face. It’s obvious he thinks I should go with him, but that doesn’t mean he enjoys the turmoil it brings me.

“So you aren’t coming home with me, then?” Merikh asks, trying hard to control his words and the anger behind them.

“No, that is not what I am saying, either.” I sigh, closing my eyes for a moment before I inhale and meet his fiery gaze. I can see the hurt on his face, feel his confusion through the mate bond.

“Then what do you want?” he asks. His voice has shifted, no longer filled with anger. Instead, it is soft, resolved, as he waits for my answer.

“I want to be able to make the decision on my own.” I tell him, and he shakes his head in disbelief.

“We are mates. We are a team.” He tells me. “We decide together

“Yet you made the decision that we leave tonight without telling me until right now. You made the decision for me with no regard for what I might need or want.” I tell him.

“This is not the time for this conversation.” He mutters, pacing away from me and toward the door.

“When is the time for it?” I ask him. “Because we hardly discussed it last night.”

We discussed it.” He shoots back. I roll my eyes.

“No. You told me what I was doing, and I told you we would discuss it in the morning.”

He scowls at me. “You actually said we would fight about it in the morning,” he reminds me.

“And here we are,

fighting about it.” I shrug, standing

“Perhaps you two should discuss this after we are done here.” Caspian says and I look at him, a little shocked. I had forgotten where we were.

“Was there something other than who I am going with that we need to discuss?” I ask Caspian, and he nods.

“Fine.” Merikh grits out, but he refuses to look at me. He throws up a barrier through our bond and I frown to myself. I’m suddenly not all that excited to be alone with him later.

we all go our separate ways, it will be difficult to communicate.” He says as he wanders

me,

lift the sleek black

Merikh says quizzically. “How do you expect to

I will place a siren in human form to watch the phone

to work?” I ask Caspian, and he frowns

how things outside of my world work, daughter,” He says. “All of that has been taken care of. Everyone’s numbers have already been added

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Chapter 70

“If you just wish to speak with me or ask

warriors will

wants to be a part of my life now feels strange. But it’s pleasant. Nice to not

have lots of questions.” I tell him and he smiles, the joy in his eyes telling me he wants me to call,

I frown at him. He looks away and exhales before he

will make sure she calls often.” He tells Caspian, who

a smile. Merikh guides me to the door, the cellphone clutched to my chest as

tell Merikh. He says nothing for a minute and I look up at him, watching as he glares forward and then turns to look

we need to finish

we need to have. There is so much emotion, so much panic in what will happen and what I might say in the heat of the

going with my father.” I say with a shrug, trying to

door behind us as he backs me into the wall. I square my shoulder, not afraid of him, and then I see the sheer terror in his eyes. The way he looks over my face like

the heat burning through me as he pleads. He rests his forearms on either side of me, boxing me in as I

said I am going yet,” I remind him

just don’t seem to understand it. You aren’t my other half, Colette. You

as he nuzzles

feel the same way,” I

he murmurs, his

gasp at his intimate touch, my eyes falling closed. “Merikh, I need to be allowed to think about this. To

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