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I scowled. “You’re just in a rotten mood because you had to talk to Marina.”
Nina looked even more invested than before. “Who’s Marina?”
“No one,” Adam and I replied simultaneously.
Her eyes widened in surprise and then she nodded. “Alright, the plan.”
“Yes, the plan,” I agreed. “For the love of the gods.”
I deflated more than I sighed, but I didn’t have anything to catch me. It wasn’t like Adam was going to do that. Would he ever want to do it again?
I’ll think about that later, I thought as I perched my hands on the table. I stared at the maps, mentally drawing the plans together.
“The vampires have human helpers,” Nina explained while pulling out a marker. She made a few dots near the entrance of the fortress. “They’ll be easy to disarm without killing them.”
Adam snorted. “Do they deserve to live?”
“That isn’t a call you get to make,” Nina snapped angrily. “If you’re planning on going feral, then you shouldn’t be part of the plan.”
“That’s my son in there.”
She capped the marker and scoffed. “Then, fuckingactlike it.”
That shut him up long enough for us to develop the rest of the plan.
On paper, everything looked relatively straightforward like we were about to follow a recipe to bake a cake. But in reality, this was a lot happening all at once. Time wasn’t our friend here. We had to get to Henry as soon as possible—and that meant we were likely to make mistakes along the way.
Especially with Adam being emotionally compromised.
The same applies to me, I considered as I committed the maps to memory.I have to get myself under control or else I’ll lose Henry. Again.
My eyes fluttered across the page several times, focusing on the areas that Nina marked. Adam sidled up to my right side and peered at the page, tentatively leaning forward. I extended the page toward him so he could get a better view.
Nina appeared like she wanted to say something until I shot her a look of warning. She pursed her lips, nodded, and then drifted out of the room, inspecting the chair options in the living room. From how her brows furrowed, she didn’t look like she wanted to try to sit on anything.
I would have laughed if I hadn’t been so upset.
“This won’t be easy,” I whispered. “But we’ll get your son back. I promise.”
“And Marina will show up later.”
I nodded. “And we’ll do the ritual.”
“And this will all be over.”
All of it. I gulped as tears billowed in my eyes.Get it together, Lottie. Cry later.
“Yep,” I agreed glibly. “It’ll all be over soon.”
“I can get back to my life.”
I sniffled. “Mine, too.”
“Hey, I know you’re worried about him. You don’t have to cry, Charlotte.”
“I’m just worried about Henry. That’s all.”
But that wasn’t all. And I had no idea how to explain that to him.
