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.

it will be difficult to communicate.” He says as

pads over to me,

pull the top from the box. I lift the sleek black cell

cell phone?” Merikh says quizzically. “How do

ocean, one where I will place a siren in human form to watch the phone

realize these devices require service to work?” I

know how things outside of my world work, daughter,” He says. “All of that has been taken care of.

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wish to speak with me or ask me a question, you only

will retrieve

whole having a dad who wants to be a part of my life now feels strange. But it’s pleasant. Nice to not be the

the joy in his eyes telling me

and I frown at him. He

tells Caspian, who

Caspian says, giving me a smile. Merikh guides me to the door, the

He says nothing for a minute and I look up at him, watching as he

conversation we need to finish first,” he

I know we need to have. There is so much emotion, so much panic in what will happen and

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

our room. He pushes the door open and swings me into it, slamming the door behind us as he backs me into the wall. I square my shoulder, not afraid of him,

through me as he pleads. He rests

am going yet,” I remind him and he shakes his

it. You aren’t my other half, Colette. You are

as he nuzzles

same way,”

with me,” he murmurs, his lips finding my ear

falling closed. “Merikh, I need to be allowed to

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