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“Aw! You two are adorable,” Isaac crooned from the doorway. “But we’ve got to go.”
I licked my lips, taking a step back from Drake, still tasting him on my tongue.
Don’t you dare start!I warned my cock.
A witchcop arrived. “Time’s up.”
Isaac snarled at him. “We know!”
The man glowered and stormed off.
Home time.
Yay!
Thank Hecate.
Chapter 12
DRAKE
“Funny how fate works, init?” Agent Jake said from the driver’s seat in his East London accent.
Funny indeed. He’d been Erin’s secret High Coven contact, a man she trusted with her life, and now he was our official liaison.
“Thank goodness fate has a sense of irony,” Erin responded from where she sat in the front seat. “Why were you in London?”
He moved the car into position on the M25 motorway, approaching the junction for the M3 back to Coldharbour, the journey under two hours without traffic. We were being tailed by two witchcop vehicles providing an escort back to the coastal city.
“Right place, right time,” Jake answered. “I’d arranged to meet Dean Tseng at the Faerie Gate of Waterloo. Then this bollocks with Rhianna went down in the station. I got tangled up in it, made to help and missed Dean’s arrival. They closed the gate because of it, so now he’ll be coming to Coldharbour tomorrow.” I watched him scowl in the rearview mirror. “He could’ve done that in the first place. But no, it’d be so good to meet in London first. Grab a bite to eat at the Italian placewe’d—” He grunted, stopping his ramble. “I’m a dickhead. As if there’s anything left to rekindle.”
Erin had mentioned a history between Jake and this fae called Dean without offering any details.
“I thought he lived in Singapore,” Erin said.
Jake reached the junction, joining the M3. “So did I. But he’s been in Faerie for three months. Only told me last night.” He grunted again.
The world of Faerie sat next to ours, with several gates across the world granting access both ways. Coldharbour’s Faerie gate was behind Rainbow Mile between a fae post office and a bakery.
“Anyway, he’ll be at the Coldharbour gate at seven tomorrow morning,” Jake added. “I’ll arrange a meeting as soon as I can so he can fix the solar diamond. Might even be able to come straight to the mansion, if that’s cool with you?”
“Wonderful,” Erin replied. “Thank you so much.”
“You’re welcome.”
Isaac’s third solar diamond needed repairing before his lion totem could be filled. Then The Sun lock on the celestial door would open. The brothers needed Preston, all his starlight diamonds safe and ready for the bear totem, to open the final lock. In doing so, they’d get access to even greater spells exclusively for them.
I’d been trying to find The Star with my power, getting nowhere each time. There was no hint of him, not even a tiny wisp of a trace. He’d completely fallen off the map.
Aaron Bramble had found him in London, tracking his debit card activities to a hotel close to London Bridge. Only, he vanished again, and his adopted family were proving difficult to reach.
All we could do was keep up the search.
We didn’t even know what he looked like. The cards were certainly not stacked in our favor.
Riley’s thigh rested against mine. I sat in the middle of the Aurora brothers, the cotton-candy taste of glamouring potion still on my tongue. Stefan made sure the three of us drank a vial each before getting into the car. A shipment would be delivered to the mansion every week from now on, the dose lasting eight days.
Riley’s here because of me,the thought repeated again, my guilt like acid in my veins.
