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Evie
Iwasn’t exactly a stranger to bad days.
But today might go down in history as one of the worst.
Not only had Nathaniel kept the little fact that I was his mate from me, but so had both Danica and Kyla. Fury mingled with humiliation, and all I wanted to do was drink until I could no longer hear their excuses ringing inside my head.
Unfortunately, from the look on Mere’s face, that was unlikely to happen.
She sighed. “I’m sorry, Evie. I know this is a lot, but there’s something else you need to know.”
I lowered my drink. “What is it?”
“Kyla went after the sword. I assumed you were going too, so I didn’t stop her.”
The world receded until I felt as if I were floating above my body. “She went alone?”
Mere nodded, wiping at the same smudge on her bar, over and over. “She said she’d heard from Aubrey and the seelie king is moving up his schedule again.”
Aubrey probably attempted to call me when I was in the underworld. When he couldn’t reach me, he’d called Kyla, assuming she’d fill me in.
Instead, she’d gone alone.
“Of all the stubborn—” I got to my feet and pushed the stool back under the bar. “I’m going after her.”
Vas went still. “I’m coming too.”
“No.” I cut him off. “You have a kid on the way. This is for Kyla and me to do.”
Only, Kyla had obviously decided I wouldn’t be helping her. She’d also obviously decided our friendship was over.
My memory provided me with the image of her wounded eyes when I’d confronted her, and I ran my hand over my face.
After the fight we’d had, I couldn’t blame her. But it was stupid and reckless. We weren’t prepared to put the plan into motion together, let alone by ourselves.
“I’ve got to go.”
“How can we help, Evie?” Vas looked tortured. Next to him, Mere looked like she wanted to send him, but she had clamped her hand around her lower belly.
“If we don’t come back, let everyone know who has us and why. That’s all I need. I’ve got this.”
They let me go, but neither of them liked it. Unfortunately, that meant I had to return to the underworld.
My mind was looping around the same thoughts over and over again. We weren’t prepared. We weren’t prepared. We definitely weren’t fucking prepared.
I stopped at Aubrey’s. He paled when I told him what had happened. “She went alone?”
“Yeah. Don’t worry, I’m going to kick her ass when I find her. If she’s still alive.”
Guilt stabbed into my gut. If she wasn’t alive, it was all my fault.
“I gave her the map,” Aubrey said, and I closed my eyes. “But I made a copy.” He took my arm and led me to the closest chair, guiding me into it. Then he turned and murmured to one of his servants.
“I wanted to have a backup for my own records,” he admitted.
“In case you decide to take the throne?”
