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I nodded as I swallowed hard, steeling my spine as I faced the truth of it.
“Tell me how.”
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Cordelia
Islammedbackintomy body with a hard jolt. There was no time to be gently reintroduced to reality with a sleepy wake-up this time around. Which was a shame because this way fucking hurt.
Groaning, I cracked open my eyes as my head throbbed, sharp pains piercing through my skull as I pressed the heel of my hand to my temple.
“Cordy, look at me,” Zeke urged as strong hands pulled me up until I was sitting on the solid ground with the three of them surrounding me.
I forced my gaze up to meet his emerald eyes, reaching out to squeeze his hand reassuringly when I saw the anguish there.
“I’m ok.”
The croak of my voice clearly didn’t do much to back up my words, and my bonds remained full of worry and fear.
“What happened, sweetheart?” Noah murmured, running his fingers through my hair.
I huffed an unamused sound. “The stones lit the way.”
Zeke shifted to the side a little so that I could see the spot where the three crystals still lay nearby on the cold stone floor. Dull and plain, their glow was completely extinguished. They’d fulfilled their purpose now.
I sighed and reached out to pull each of my mates closer, needing the reassurance of their touch.
“I know how to finish this now,” I breathed, the confession hard to voice. “But you’re not going to like it.”
Liam’s mouth turned up in a crooked smile, his eyes sad as he sifted through my emotions in our bond. “Did you really believe it would be easy, Princess?”
I wrapped a hand around his neck and pulled him down so that our foreheads pressed together. Noah’s arm looped around my waist as he buried his face in my shoulder, while Zeke’s hands stroked up and down my legs consolingly. Their combined touches gave me the strength to swallow past the lump in my throat and speak.
“No, but I really hoped that we’d be going home when it was all over.”
Their reactions to my words were lost in the clatter of heavy footfalls as a dozen bodies burst into the room.
Leaping to our feet, I pushed away the pain in my head as we faced the intruders, menacing growls sounding in warning from each of my guys. Dressed in black, with their signature silver daggers in hand, the Queen’s guard quickly spread out to circle us as they glanced around at the chamber.
“Not been down here before, huh?” I mused, forcing a light-hearted, teasing lilt into my voice. “Well do feel free to have a look around while you’re here. It might help you see your mistress in her true light.”
“Shut your mouth, traitor bitch,” a stocky, blond guard bit out, venom in his tone as he flexed his fingers around his knife.
“Enough!”
I met Mikael’s gaze where he stood in the centre of the line of guards, his face expressionless as his empty hands hung calmly at his sides.
“She felt us break the wards?” I asked simply.
He nodded. “You were fools to come here.”
The other guards snickered as the blond one called out again. “You’ll never leave this place alive.”
A twinge of fear ripped through me, but I shoved it down with all the other emotions I was suppressing.
“Is it just me, or should there be more of you?” Liam asked with a knowing smirk.
Zeke chuckled darkly. “I heard that the people are rebelling. Maybe they lost a few.”
