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Lexi informed the room that they would have coffee and nightcaps in the sunroom. The kings followed their mates to be, all chattering with excitement, feeding off each other’s energy.
Lexi was nervous again, and Xander followed behind her after informing the kitchen they were moving to the sunroom. The room looked over a wide terrace that could host at least a dozen guests and the landscape just past the stables.
Xander took her hand before they entered the room slated in all glass. The rain hammered against the ceiling and windows, the sky getting angrier by the second.
“You can do this.”
Lexi breathed deeply, and she squeezed his hand. Xander would do anything in the world for this woman.
SEVENTEEN
LEXI
Lexi waited until everyone was settled in the sunroom before informing them about Harper. She found herself feeling inexplicably nervous. At the moment, she was unable to narrow down precisely why. This only served to annoy her, but she was glad she had Xander by her side, his quiet support meaning more than the words she was struggling to locate.
Each of her sisters sat with their prospective mates on the love seats, with the roar of thunder acting as an omen in the gray distance. The rain had begun to fall in thick smacks against the glass, casting the landscape in thick vaporous streaks.
Lexi stood in the center of the room on a carpet with butter yellow and flamingo pink inscriptions. She wrung her hands together as her voice croaked outward, a desperate plea, with Xander at her side.
“I’m afraid I had some ulterior motives for inviting you all here tonight.”
The sisters had been chattering with casual ease, but as soon as Lexi spoke, they all turned together like birds in a flock toward their baby sister.
Lexi swallowed hard, the rain now sounding like fists against the glass.
“Harper is missing. She came to Odstindale to act as my enforcer, but now she has disappeared.”
Declan, who was sitting with his arm around his mate, turned to face Xander with a puzzled expression.
“Is this true, Xander?”
Xander nodded. Lexi appreciated his silent sense of support.
“Wait a minute,” Taryn said. “What do you mean she’s missing?”
“What I just said,” Lexi spoke up. “I was told that she had gone out for training, but Xander informed me that he hadn’t given her such an order. So I asked you all here for a location spell.”
All three of Lexi’s older sisters looked at each other, then at her. There was a bond between these siblings that not even the closest of friends or soul mates could comprehend. They had all grown up with the same sense of inadequacy and being bullied in public. So they huddled together like sailors in a storm for the sake of their survival.
Taryn, the eldest sister, stood first, then motioned to Addisyn and Madison.
“Let’s get this going. We don’t know how long this is going to take.”
Lexi was thrilled that Taryn was taking the bull by the horns. She instructed Declan and the rest of the men to move the furniture aside so the women could stand in a circle at the center of the room, and they did so without question.
There wasn’t much required for the women to cast a spell, but it generally required all of them to be in an isolated and focused state to get the job done. Individually, their abilities were minor, although Lexi’s healing powers had been developing during her time at the clinic.
But she couldn’t rely on a vague image when it came to finding Harper. She needed something crystal clear, and that would only come to fruition with all four siblings joined hand in hand.
“Do you need anything?”
Xander rested his palm on her shoulder, not intrusively, but to genuinely be of aid. It was one of the many things that Lexi found alluring about him, the way he didn’t take over in order to assert his masculinity.
It made her heart skip a beat.
“No, that is all, darling. I will likely be exhausted afterward from all the energy absorption, so maybe you can catch me?”
Xander’s eyes sparkled as he smirked.
