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“It’s unusual. Something about her must have caused the powers to hold.” Eli’s jaw flexed.

He and his mother locked eyes in a silent conversation.

“I’m certain it’s because of the magic that you used to keep me alive with half of a heart, or maybe a reaction to the Seelie gift of animal companionship you blessed me with,” I broke in,beads of sweat gliding down my forehead, glancing nervously at Eli.

“He already knows. Tarani does as well,” Saracen stated.

“You told them?” I said, my anger rising.

“Only the basics. They can fill you in later.” Her eyes held mine a moment too long.

I needed to know how much they knew.

“Calypso’s powers may have neutralized a bit of his,” she said to Aurelius.

I glared at her. She was going to wreck everything for me.

“Oh, the cat’s out of the bag now that you’re back from Unseelie,” she chuckled. “No one would have believed you were human and returned alive as it was.”

Tell her I just needed to be inside of you in one way or another, pet.

A scream ripped free from my throat as I fell over the small love seat, tipping it and myself to the ground.

No.

No!

What the fuck?

What. The. Fuck?

The voice in my mind was the same gravelly voice I had heard during the trials when Mendax had spoken to me through the bond.

My entire body trembled, making it impossible to get up.

No.

He couldn’t talk through the bond anymore.

He was dead.

It was my subconscious talking.Ihad thought that.

Flashes of Mendax’s face appeared in my mind—the look of shock and appreciation that creased the corners of his cold blue eyes when I had stabbed him.

I swear I could feel him laughing at me from his grave now.

God, I’m exhausted.

“Cal! What is it?” Eli helped me up, alarm and worry filling his voice.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

“I-I—” My head was shaking. Trembling. I gawked at him, unable to find the right words. “I thought I—I thought I heard something, and it scared me. I-I’m just tired,” I said, reaching out to squeeze the tanned arm of the kind fae.

“Mother, she needs to go to bed. Look at her?—”

“Nonsense. There’re things we need to decide now that everything is out in the open. Tarani, I know you are listening outside. Stop being so troublesome and take Calypso on a tour. Eli and I will join the two of you shortly. We have something of importance to discuss.”

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