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.

separate ways, it will be difficult to communicate.” He says as he

ask him. Caspian pads over to me, holding the

from the box. I lift the sleek black cell phone from the box, looking up at him, a little shocked to see he would have a human device like

quizzically. “How do you expect to

home on the shore of the ocean, one where I will place a siren in human form

devices require service to work?” I ask Caspian, and he frowns at

daughter,” He says. “All of that has been taken care of. Everyone’s numbers have already been added as well and there is a charger in

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to speak

will

to be a part of my

smiles, the joy in his eyes telling me he wants

tender father daughter moment and I frown at him. He looks away and exhales

often.” He tells Caspian,

now. Caspian says, giving me a smile. Merikh guides me to the door, the cellphone clutched to my chest as

want to check in on Percy.” I tell Merikh. He says nothing for a minute and I look up at

need to finish first,” he

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

to say. I am considering going with my

into the wall. I square my shoulder, not afraid of him, and then I see the sheer terror in his eyes. The way

his body fully pressed to mine. The coolness of the wall does nothing to stop the heat burning through me as he pleads. He rests his forearms on either side of me, boxing me in as

I am going yet,” I remind him and

don’t seem to understand it. You aren’t my

as he nuzzles into

the same way,” I

staying with me,” he murmurs, his lips finding my ear as he whispers

closed. “Merikh, I need

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