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“Then what are we doing?” she asked through her teeth.
“Well, I’m observing,” he drawled. “And you appear to be stalling while Ajax suffers.”
Her lips parted.
Melek shook his head.
And I… I just sighed. Again. “Cami?—”
“No,” Typhos interjected, cutting me a look. “This is between me, Cami, and Ajax.”
Melek moved to my side, his power seeming to hum beneath his skin. But he remained silent as he watched the Hell Fae King with our mate.
My teeth clenched.She doesn’t understand.
I know,Typhos returned.And that’s my burden to take on, not yours.
I shook my head. He was going to make this worse. But his words from earlier played back through my mind. While this might not be the way I would handle it, that didn’t make his way wrong.
Fine.
I took a step back, hands up, and let him lead.
Two minutes, I told him.Then I’m intervening.
I won’t need more than one, he promised me.
Yeah, we’d see about that.
Because at this rate, Cami was going to try to hit him before she listened to him. We both could hear Ajax’s mind and the broken thoughts fluttering through it. He was standing right in front of us, but he wasn’twithus.
He was back in the Midnight Fae Realm.
Standing on a podium.
Locked down under a spell.
And watching everyone he loved…die.
CHAPTER 14
AJAX
“Salayla and Tor of the Death Fae have knowingly aided and abetted abominations throughout the Midnight Fae Realm,” Constantine Nacht announced, his voice carrying through the village square.
I could hear him.
Understand him.
Seehim.
Yet I… I couldn’t feel his power. His energy. His sense of existence.
Because he’s not real, I told myself.He’s not here.
But his words… his words wereveryreal.
“Salayla and Tor of the Death Fae have also declared their allegiance to the Quandary Bloods,” he went on, causing the crowd to shout in fury.
