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“I can’t make this decision for us.” Rand shook his head. “I wish I could. But Yunez has to be here.”
“Where the fuck is he anyway?” Sage finished off his water and dropped his glass in the sink, harder than he should have.
“He’s with his generals. He’s trying to learn everything he can so we can come out on the other side unscathed,” Rand stood, resignation stamped all over his body.
“So,” Jari started, quirking a brow. “He’s researching, planning, and doing all the things that we should be doing too. Only, he’s doing it alone.”
“You don’t understand the responsibility Yunez has—” Rand defended him.
“I think we can all understand, at least on a surface level, the responsibility and knowledge Yunez wields. But what I think Yunez—and you—have forgotten, is that we’re all in this together. Are we a family, or not?” Nato asked.
“We’re a family, right?” I looked to Rand, begging him to be on our side. That would only leave Yunez.
“Of course, we are. Of course, we are,” he agreed.
“Then I think we know what we have to do,” Egan extended a hand to me.
“What’s that?” Rand asked, his brow furrowing as he watching Egan tug me up from the couch.
“We need to go collect Yunez. Make him include us,” I said, walking with Egan toward the door.
“Right now?” Rand yelled behind us.
“Right fucking now,” Jari confirmed.
Except when we opened the door, Yunez crashed right into me.
“Get ready. We have ten minutes,”Yunez rushed out as he moved some of his midnight hair out of his face. I drank in the sight of him.
I hadn’t really seen him in days. And even when I had, it was always his back as he left the apartment to go hole up with his generals. Had he even slept?
The deep purple circles under his eyes said that he hadn’t.
“Ready for what?”
“Wade is almost here. We have one chance to learn what he knows and ask for a favor.” Then Yunez was gone. He’d disappeared into his room, apparently to get ready.
Now that we were all bonded, we had moved into his suite. A long time ago, he had rooms and beds prepared for everyone. A nice little way to say he wanted us all together, since he didn’t have the same layout in the other suites. Not even close.
Which would have been great, if he’d been sleeping in it with us.
“Oh shit. This could be really good, or really bad.” Rand burst into action as he ran into his room and came right back. “Isolde, you need to dress like we’re going to a political function. I know we talked about training, but right now, we need to fake it ‘til we make it.”
Then he was gone too. My original LL exchanged glances.
“Who is Wade?” I glanced at each man.
“I don’t know, but I think we better get ready. We did ask to be involved.” Jari pressed a kiss to my head then took off toward his room.
We did ask to be involved, but I thought there would be some heart to hearts first. Not getting tossed in the deep end and not understanding what was going on.
But shit, I couldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
All at once, the rest of us scattered, going to our respective rooms with our closets. Mine was off of the main bedroom next to Yunez’s.
The sound of water splashing echoed from the bathroom as I pushed through the hangers looking for something nice to wear. Mostly, we had tactical wear that was appropriate for sparring. We hadn’t really had the occasion to need anything fancier.
Oh, there was the floss outfit hanging in the corner that the Cherries had gotten for me. Nope, that wasn’t an option either.
