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"Do you even know where it is?" Flint asked, sitting up more slowly than Macey had.
"Not really, no. I'd ask Rónán, but he's busy being flirted with."
Macey's scowl deepened but Jared didn't really seem to notice. Flint did. He rubbed her back soothingly, which she had to admit actually helped.
"Do you have a plan?" she asked.
"Not as such," he admitted. "They're stood in front of Cara's house and the only other way in is through the chimney..."
"And you want me to do the Air thing and float down into it," Macey said, giving him a look that she hoped he took as him being completely crazy.
"Pretty much, yes."
"Great, okay then."
"Good, we'll get going." Jared turned around without waiting for Macey to confirm and she frowned. Was he seriously going to walk away while she was completely naked?
"Right..."
"We don't have much time," he said.
"What makes you say that?" she asked, noticing he hadn't actually walked away, just turned his back. That was odd behaviour for Jared, though maybe she just wasn't with it properly yet. Cam and Flint really must have done something to her brain. Was there such a thing as losing brain power from too much sex? If not, then she might be the first patient ever.
"Just a hunch." Jared shrugged and Macey s
ighed in response. Ignoring hunches was normally a bad sign.
"Fine. Cam, Flint, can you go find Amber and Izban and make sure they're ready to leave. Jared and I will go steal back Rónán's seal skin, grab him and then come join you by the bonfire."
"Not a good meeting spot," Jared said. "It's right by Cara's house."
"Alright then, where do you suggest?"
"Did you see the stone hut when we came into the village?" Flint asked.
"Yes." She'd noticed it because it was different from the driftwood homes the selkies seemed to favour. It had seemed a little out of place, though she hadn't thought too much of it. Her whole world was a little bit out of place.
"That's where we should meet. There's an entry to the Staran there," he said.
"Okay, that sounds like a good getaway plan. If anyone asks what the four of you are doing, tell them we have a Wardens ritual to do or something."
Cam snickered slightly, but didn't move from his spot on the bed. "Funny how you didn't even want to believe you were a Warden at one point. Now you're using it as an excuse."
"I can't exactly deny it now," Macey muttered, scooting herself away from the warm embrace of the two men in bed and towards where she hoped her clothes were.
She scooped up her clothes from where they'd been discarded all over the floor and threw them back on, not giving a second thought to how she looked.
"Right then. Let's go," she said to Jared, leaving the other two completely behind.
She couldn't help it, she had to see how Rónán was getting on. Peering around the side of Cara's hut, she was just in time to see him pull a face and narrowly avoid the female selkie's forced embrace again.
Some of the jealousy within Macey settled down. He wasn't going to abandon her for this woman. Not when he was looking so displeased about being in her company.
"Macey," Jared hissed. "Not now."
"Sorry," she shot back. "But I have more at stake than just a seal skin."
"I know, but the sooner we get that skin, the sooner he'll be out of her clutches for good."
