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“Fine.”
Owen grabbed the blanket out of the carriage before sending the horses and carriage driver back to the barn. We walked a short distance to a little cabin-looking building. One I assumed was for the men working the wall. It likely held weapons. Not wanting to enter the building, I sat on the cold bench just outside of it. I wanted to be right here when I first heard the deep creaking and clacking of the wall.
I’d waited for hours and now likely had a few hours more to wait, but I felt like I couldn’t breathe until Krew was back in my sight. He was alive. Shot, but alive.
I knew I would do whatever was required to make sure this wouldneverhappen again. To protect myself. To protect my people. But most of all, to protect my prince.
CHAPTER36
Iwanted to take the sands of time and shake them thoroughly for this day. I had waited so much today since Krew left me. I tucked my hands inside my coat. They were so cold I had long since lost feeling in them. It was freezing out. The blanket which Owen kept warming for me was the only thing keeping me from shivering. In fact, with the dark blue and gray clouds moving in fast, it might even start snowing any minute.
And normally I loved to see it snow up on the mountain, loved to see the forest blanketed in it, but not today. Today I needed happy things. Like sunshine. And someone who I cared immensely about to not die on me yet. Was that too much to ask?
Just when I was sure I was going to die on the spot from frostbite, I felt that buzzing in the air that I was more than familiar with. Magic.
I stood and started walking toward the wall, leaving the blanket to the bench.
“What are you doing?” Owen asked as he rose and caught up to me in a whole two strides.
“He’s here,” I stated and looked up. “Why aren’t they opening the wall? Shouldn’t they hurry?”
Owen looked at me like I’d gone mad. “What do you meanhe’s here?”
I kept looking up at the guards on the wall. “Don’t you feel it?”
“Feel what?”
Now I was looking at him like he was the one gone mad. “Magic.”
Owen’s head snapped back. “You canfeelmagic?”
“Can’t you?”
At that moment I heard the guards all start yelling to one another. I’d been right. Krew was here.Finally.
Owen and I moved closer to the road but still safely to the side and out of the way. They might speed right by us to get Krew whatever help he needed, but that was okay.
Emric riding horseback and the four horses and Enchanted that had run from the Nerede wall back to help Krew were riding alongside the carriage Owen and I had seen just a few hours ago. They were protecting it.
My eyes were on the carriage though, where I knew he’d be. Sure enough, I saw the bloodied bandage and then those gray eyes that I’d been craving since the moment they’d last left me.
“Stop!” he demanded from where he sat propped up.
I was running. I didn’t care if Owen followed. I didn’t care what all these Enchanted on the wall and with the carriage thought. I cared about none of them. I just wanted to get to Krew as quickly as possible.
I grabbed the wooden ledge of the back of the carriage and hoisted myself in.
It wasn’t until I was in the carriage with them that I noticed someone had been holding a hand down for me. Ignoring that man entirely, I squeezed myself between the healer and Krew, leaning in to kiss him hard.
“Hi, love,” he said roughly.
He looked paler than I had ever seen him, his forehead slightly slick with sweat. “I’m so sorry,” I whispered as I rested a hand along his jaw. “Also I want to shake you a little. Why did you make us leave you?”
“Enough,” the one healer barked. “Stop touching him. His magic needs to rebuild.”
I gasped and moved my hands away immediately. “I’m so sorry.”
“Don’t be,” Krew said while glaring at the healer.
