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Why had he pulled back? Were the memories too painful? And what had that last impression been? He’d been commanded to find something, and it seemed as if maybe he had, but the flood of emotions and ideas had ended before I could understand what exactly he’d been sent to?—
A click came from the wall.
I flinched, adrenaline racing through me and pushing me to the brink of letting my fangs descend. In the shadows, my night vision picked out the edge of a wall panel swinging outward.
Casimir leaned his head around the opening.
My breath rushed out in shock and relief.
He cast a glance at the shadows, and Ruhl rose from the darkness a moment later. “You were supposed to let us know if the way was clear,” Casimir chided pointedly.
The wolf didn’t look remotely abashed. I’d swear his shoulder even twitched as if he was shrugging. Ignoring Casimir, he strolled to the door, but just as he reached it, he paused.
His head turned and his green eyes met mine. Even though he was a wolf, even though he didn’t have facial expressions like me, and of course he never said a word, I still felt like he was asking me not to say anything about what he’d just shared.
Before I could move a muscle, the wolf turned away again. Shifting to smoke, he flowed beneath the door and out of the room.
Casimir shook his head but said nothing else as he pushed the panel in the wall aside farther.
Dex, Clay, and Lars followed him into the room.
I stared at them. “What is this? Is everything okay?”
“It’s fine,” Dex assured me.
“Now,” Lars added.
I gave him a confused look.
“I don’t know about you, baby.” Clay crossed the room to the bedside. “But we weren’t okay leaving you in here alone.”
My mouth moved, but I couldn’t find words.
“Casimir swore there’d be a way between rooms in this place,” Lars said with an acknowledging twitch of his head toward the vampire. “Security measures, he claimed. Something about the architecture being influenced by Zenirya. Sure enough, he was right. There’s a passage linking this one and the next two, and, well…” He grinned.
“Are you okay with us staying in here with you, princess?” Dex asked, coming over to the opposite side of the bed from Clay.
I nodded quickly. “Yes. Absolutely. I…”
The urge to pull them into the bed with me was overwhelming but I wasn’t sure how to voice it and not sound desperate.
But gods, I’d missed them.
With a smile, Dex sank down onto the bed and drew me into his arms. I melted against him, overwhelmed with relief that he was here and the others were too. That, at least for this one night, I could still have them with me.
No matter what the future held.
On the other side of the bed, Clay grinned and then bounded onto the mattress, jostling us.
I clamped a hand to my mouth, stifling a laugh. We couldn’t risk making too much sound, lest the guards hear.
“Take it easy,” Lars cautioned his brother as if thinking the same thing. He sat down on the edge of the bed, drawing my feet toward him and then rubbing them gently.
Clay scoffed, pulling me into his arms when Dex relaxed his hold. “And waste one more second away from our girl?” He made a rude noise. “Never.”
My cheeks warmed. Turning slightly, I reached over to Dex, taking his hand and squeezing it. I didn’t want to lose contact with any of them, not for one second.
Not when I might have a lifetime where nights like this were only a memory.
