Page 132 of The Rebel Seer

Lilith sighs. “He is sad, but she needs this space. She still loves him. Still loves you all, but I ask you to honor her wish.”

“I don’t even know you, lady,” Daniel begins.

But Dev steps up and offers her a hand. “I do, Lilith. First woman, I ask that you help my daughter as we have aided yours. We love Nimue and count her as part of our family, and you are welcome in our kingdom. As for Evan, please tell her we love her and accept her and what she needs. Tell her we will take care of Fenrir. We will make sure he is safe and cared for and has everything that is necessary. Apart from her.”

She squeezes his hand. “I will take you up on that, High Priest. You have that look about you. Now you are definitely in the wrong timeline. Does this have anything to do with the rumor that the Hell plane recently lost several thousand guests and Lucifer is cross with Myrddin?”

I hold up my hand. “I did that.”

She nods my way. “Excellent. Good job, though don’t think Luc will kill him. He’s all for the insane close-off-Heaven thing. He has daddy issues. Now, let’s get you back where you belong.”

“You can do that?” Zoey asks.

Lilith stops for a moment before answering. “I got here, didn’t I. Are you ready?”

Dev steps back. “So ready.”

Lilith snaps her fingers.

And we’re in Frelsi again.

“Hey, you’re back. Girl, you look good.” Josie sits on a rock to my left. “Do you really have to go to New Zealand? It’s boring when y’all are gone.”

“It’s our timeline,” I say with a smile. “Josie’s here.”

“We’re home,” Rhys says with a sigh of relief. He takes a deep breath as though something about being on his home plane settles him.

“Yeah, about that,” I begin because I see a problem now. “I am not living with your brother and Fenrir.”

The biggest smile crosses his face. “I think we’ll find our own place. Until then we can probably get Fen and Lee out of the house by having sex as much as possible.”

There’s a problem with that. Lee would want to watch.

“Where’s Zoey?” Neil asks.

We look around. We’re all here. Cassie and Brendan and Lee. Meadow and Sasha are here. Danny and Dev.

But no Zoey.

We’ve lost her.

Chapter Thirty-Seven

Zoey

I turn on the infamous first woman when I realize I’m the only one in my party still here. It’s me and Lee—still holding his moonstone—left in the parlor, and I wonder if I’m being tricked once more.

“Is there a reason you separated me from my husbands?” I ask in my iciest tone. A thought occurred to me, one that threatened to make me sick. “Or did you send them somewhere else? Who are you working for?”

“Lady who looks like my mom, do you need me to kill her or something?” Lee asks in an oddly polite tone, like he’s really not sure the etiquette for dealing with a girl throwdown over one of them sort of kidnapping the other.

Lilith frowns. “Of course I sent them somewhere else. I sent them to the place I saw in the Fae’s mind. Someplace called Frelsi. The wolves were thinking about it, too, as was the vampire. As to the timeline, your bodies naturally want to be in the proper timeline. How did you get here? Was it a spell? Or did you use the blue stones?”

Well, no one could say she didn’t know her way around the universe. “We were given stones and told to go through a doorway that led us here. We thought we were going to the Seelie sithein in our timeline.”

She nods as though listening. “Yes. You needed to go there because there’s a… I believe you’re describing an amulet, child. Yes, I can see it. It does not work here?”

“I’m sorry, who are you talking to?” I ask.

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