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The fey grunted and took my hand.
“I’m Drav. Welcome to Tolerance. Mya will want to meet you.”
“And I’m very interested in meeting Mya. I’ve heard a bit about her. But before we can, we need to get these people inside. They’ve been through hell to get here.”
While Molev moved off to speak to the fey gathered, the team and I coordinated the volunteers and started unloading supplies. A few of them had bags of personal items, but not much. A young man named Garrett showed up and said he’d be happy to escort the newcomers to their temporary accommodations until they could find a permanent place for everyone.
Bit by bit and person by person, everything went over the wall.
Molev and I were the last ones over, and rather than clearing it in one go, like I knew he could, he landed on top of the wall. I looked out over the cluster of houses in the connected subdivisions.
“This is home now, Andie,” he said.
Something in his tone sent a shiver through me and had my core clenching.
“When did I become your wife in your mind?” I asked, turning my head to look at him.
“The moment you gave yourself to me.”
It eased a little bit of the tension inside of me because that had been after I’d explained my stance on roles and kids.
“Okay. Then take me to your leader’s wife.”
He chuckled and jumped down.
“You are the leader’s wife.”
Disbelief rippled through me as I stared up at him. I’d guessed Molev was higher up–but at the top? Since when did leaders go out on their own to learn more about their perceived enemies? Never, that’s when.
The beginning hints of a frown crept into his expression.
“You’re thinking too much.”
“Doubtful,” I said.
He grunted and started jogging down the street with me in his arms.
Knowing he was the leader didn’t really change anything in the moment. And, not knowing in the past had protected him. Yet, I still sort of wished he wasn’t the person in charge. Leadership had set responsibility. Instead of arriving and passing the burden of finding a solution to our world’s problems to someone else, he and I—
I stopped my thoughts right there and turned my face into his chest. When had we become a team in my head?
“You’re thinking too much,” he said again as he slowed.
“Probably,” I said. “But there’s a lot to think about.”
He grunted and set me on my feet in front of a normal-looking house. Normal in that it had curtains and intact windows and doors and no blood smears or overgrown grass.
“Whose house is this?” I asked.
“This is Drav and Mya’s home.” Molev took me by the hand and led me to the front door. Drav, the fey I’d met earlier, opened it before we reached it.
“It’s about damn time,” a woman said from behind Drav a second before he was nudged aside and a brunette was hugging Molev. He glanced at me and patted her shoulder awkwardly, which I found a little endearing.
“You must be Mya,” I said. “I’m Andie.”
Mya pulled back and looked at me. Her gaze swept over me, assessing me in one sweep, but not exactly in a judgmental way. She was taking me in like I took people in. Noting details.
“Does he belong to you?” she asked.
