Page 14 of The Tracker's Dawn: Sunderverse
CHAPTER 5
When we got back toEric’s, he was waiting for us in his study, pacing in front of the fireplace.
“It took you guys long enough. How did it go?! Did you find him?” He asked as soon as we walked through the door.
I shook my head. “No, but his uncle is going to find him and deliver a message from us.”
“He’ll be here,” Jake said, placing a hand on my shoulder and giving it a reassuring squeeze. We had swung by the training room before we came looking for Eric, where Jake had retrieved a pair of dark jeans, and a gray button-up shirt.
“Where’s Damien?” I asked.
Eric’s mouth twisted to one side. “He took off as soon as you did. Didn’t say where he was going or anything.” He didn’t sound very pleased about that. Not at all. “He’s going to get himself killed again, if he does I’ll dance on top of his grave.”
“You might squish him if he has become a worm again,” I pointed out.
“Precisely.”
Jake chuckled. I elbowed him in the stomach.
He rolled his eyes. “What? It was funny.”
“No, it wasn’t. Just like you acting like a fool in front of those Fae wasn’t either.”
“Do I want to know?” Eric asked.
I exhaled. “No, you don’t.” I rubbed my forehead. “What do we do now?”
“We come up with a plan.”
We sat around the coffee table across from the fireplace, Jake next to me on the sofa, and Eric across from us in an armchair.
“I think there’d be no point in trying to conceal our presence,” Jake said. “A Midnight Witch... she’ll know if we try to hide, so I say we just all walk up to the agency.”
“I agree,” Eric said.
I nodded. I had to trust them. They had more experience than me on this type of thing. “What do we do if Prince Kalyll doesn’t come?”
“He will,” Jake assured me again.
“But what if he doesn’t?”
He exchanged a defeated glance with Eric. They didn’t think things would go well if we didn’t get our hands on that elixir to perform the exchange.
I wrung my hands together. “I’ll beg her for more time. She’ll have to understand.”
“I don’t think she’s the understanding type, Sunder,” Eric put in.
“Yeah, I don’t think so either.” I hated to agree.
“In fact,” Jake said cautiously, “I feel like she won’t care either way. Whether or not we have the elixir, she will...” He stopped as if to spare me from his dark thoughts.
But I knew exactly where he was headed. “She will get to make someone miserable,” I finished for him.
“Something like that,” he admitted with a nod.
