Caspian enters the kitchen looking a little better than he had when he arrived. He rummages in the fridge looking for anything he can find to eat as I sit with a cup of warm tea, waiting for Colette to get back.

"How are Hayes and his mate?" He asks as he closes the fridge door.

I shrug. “As good as can be, I suppose we are lucky that Colette and I arrived when we did."

"Did you have as warm of a welcome as I did?" He asks, walking over with a pint of ice cream and a spoon. I arch a brow, watching him with curiosity. "Ice cream?" I ask him skeptically and he just stares at me as he opens it and spoons a bite in.

"There are many things I love about being up here. This is one of those things." He explains as the front door opens. I stand up, waiting anxiously for Colette to walk through, even though I know with every fiber that it is for sure her. But that doesn't matter. There is nothing better than physically being able to have eyes on her.

"We came as fast as we could." She says, a soft exhale when she meets my gaze, her body relaxing as she moves to me as I lift my arms. She melts into me, her embrace feeling like home as I fill my lungs with her scent.

"Are you okay?" Melody asks Caspian as she moves past me.

My lips find the top of Colette's head before I look up to watch Caspian look up from his ice cream with a look of surprise on his face, spoon in his mouth.

“Me?" He asks, removing it and swallowing roughly.

"Yes,"

“Uh, I'm okay. Nothing I couldn't handle." He says, sounding like he is trying to boast. I shoot him an amused look, and he clears his throat. "Elm is here, Colette."

She breaks our embrace too soon, as I slip my arm around her back, seeking her touch at every turn.

“Is he still here? What did he say" She asks, looking around for him.

"He will be back." Caspian says. "Right now, he is with Hayes and Leandra, trying to help them."

"What is wrong with Hayes and Leandra?" Colette breaks in, her eyes wide with concern.

exhale, shooting a

has captured Lily and they are apparently torturing her. Lily still has a fragment of a hold on

face grows pale and I can feel her worry through the bond

She whispers, as if it is a thought for herself she didn't realize she spoke

reassure her, though it would be a lie if I said it didn't unsettle me to think he was struggling, like Hayes

heavily. "We know where Giselle is, and now we

make the first move," Elm says, entering the kitchen

now." I remind him. "With you having Lily under lock

wolves in the area. I do not mean to be rude, but wolves are much easier for her to

to be dead, Elm." I grit out, striding toward him with a glare. Elms scowls at me as he crosses

is a process when it comes to magic.” "You all were so fucking opposed to a hybrid existing and yet you can maintain this level of magic and power with no one checking in on your kind?" "Our kind has never been

fucking war started because of Colette's existence, or so everyone keeps saying, but the truth is his own queen is the one who began all

the traitorous-" Colette steps between us, stepping me back away

matters is

panic." Caspian says. "The hold on those under her spell

press together as I

Lily go, have Ezrah follow her." I say after a moment

to each other clues me into their thoughts. They all

for

time

is inevitable. If releasing Lily can buy us just a few hours, then we need to take

but he seems less hostile, more

maintain our element of surprise and then, when we are ready, launch our own attack?" “Aren't we better off with her coming to us?" Melody asks. “Isn't the whole plan to make her

need Ezrah to follow her?" Elm asks, arching a

say with a scoff, "There is no way in hell I would let her go and just allow her to be

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