Page 255 of Sky’s Edge

“I just got a strange feeling.”

“Do I need to find Uly or Nayden?” she asked urgently.

I turned to her. “They’re trained demon warriors. So is Tanyn. They’d feel something was amiss before me, don’t you think?”

“I would think, but you’re demon too, Catla. You have demon instincts. So should I find Uly or Nayden?”

I scanned the room and my senses.

The sensation was gone.

But I locked on Dinyn Climbright, just because Tanyn didn’t like him.

He was in the other room, dancing with one of Lex’s cousins.

“I think I’m just being overwrought because of all that’s going on,” I said.

“Maybe,” she replied, but I could tell she wasn’t convinced.

At that point, I felt something else, looked to Tanyn and saw his gaze on me.

I read immediately he wanted me at his side.

“Sorry, but I need to ask you to excuse me. Tanyn wants me,” I said to Estra.

“And I need to find my male, because if I don’t dance while I’m in the Celestial Palace wearing a fabulous gown, which, by the way, thank you for arranging for me, I’ll never forgive myself. Uly hates dancing and he’s been avoiding it. I’m running out of time to pin him down.”

I smiled at her, bid her good luck and headed to Tanyn.

One of the few genuine smiles I saw from him that night was the one he aimed at me when I started to do so.

As such, I wasted no time as I crossed the room to get to his side.

Doing so, not knowing, two beings watched my every step.

Closely.

And malevolently.

“That wasn’t so bad, was it?” I asked as the lift doors closed on the member of the detail who’d been keeping watch over my flat while we were gone and we were wandering back into said flat five hours after we left it.

“What I can say is, it’s done.” He gave me a certain look. “What I can also say is, don’t take that fucking dress off.”

I’d nearly dislocated a shoulder closing the zip, even if it was a side one (maneuvering through those rectangles had been a bitch).

But that wasn’t the only reason he’d be taking it off me.

I tilted my head. “No wine tonight?”

“Get upstairs,” he ordered

I grinned.

But that was all the time I wasted before I went upstairs (however, I was me, so as I did it, I put a lot of sashay into it and was rewarded when I heard his low growl behind me).

In other words, even with that funny feeling I’d had, the engagement party went off without a hitch.

Laura looked gorgeous. Aleksei looked so proud. They were both so very happy.