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“Fuck if I know.” I groaned, then went on to explain how I’d gotten the information to hunt Kinsley down and bring her back to No Man’s Land.
“She’s your mate and you brought her back to the one place where the fucker wanted her? That’s savage, even for you,” he said with a shake of his head.
Didn’t I fucking know it.
“Where else was I supposed to take her?” I snapped. “To a House that’s at war with itself like the unicorn suggested even though Kinsley doesn’t know who she is? And nowhere else was going to let us in. At least I didn’t go back to my cabin.”
D rubbed a hand over the back of his neck and adjusted his stance. “I see your point, but I still don’t understand how you agreed to all of this in the first place, even if they used dark magic on you.”
I could understand. Though, it hadn’t escaped me that there might have been something bigger at play than any of us realized.
My boot kicked at a stray rock. “He showed me pictures of dead kids.”
D knew about Addie. He was the only person still living who did. Who knew my baby sister had been attacked by demons my father had sent looking for my mother, ones who hadn’t known about me until I’d hunted them down myself.
She’d been home alone. Defenseless at only ten years old.
The demons could have waited for my mother to come home, but instead, they’d chosen to send a message.
They still hadn’t gotten what they, or my piece-of-shit father, had wanted.
My mom had finally told me everything she knew about him. She’d made me promise to make them pay for Addie’s life. To make them hurt how she had.
I’d done just that. I’d hunted them all through the depths of Soleil—or Celestia, depending on who you asked—the demon and angel portal. I’d ripped them slowly to shreds while their agonizing screams had echoed into the shadows they often hid in.
My father had been saved for last. He hadn’t known who I was until he’d laid eyes on me. I’d done my best to make that happen, and it had been worth every moment I’d spent in the darkness when he’d realized I wasn’t there to join him but to take his worthless life away.
When my fist had torn through his chest, nothing had ever felt more satisfying.
That changed when I’d gotten home.
After I returned, my mother had taken her own life. She’d left a note saying she was at peace with this life now that the demons were dead, but she couldn’t survive any longer. That she needed to be with her baby girl.
I’d been so fucking angry with her for that choice after all we’d been through, but I’d channeled my aggressions into something I could live with. Like killing bastards who fucked with the wrong people.
“Do you think this Johnathon knows your weakness when it comes to kids?” D asked, shaking me out of the past I tried not to revisit often.
“It shouldn’t be possible, but if they have a Seer at their disposal, they might. Or maybe I left one alive without realizing it. Hell, there are too many possibilities, no matter how careful I thought I was.”
Magic had its advantages, but there were just as many hindrances, too.
“Well, you can’t change the choices you’ve already made or what they might already know,” he said. “Do you need help with your shifter mate?”
As the ringmaster to this circus, D had certain abilities that kept him in charge, but I didn’t think his methods were what Kinsley needed.
Or that I could handle watching her possibly suffer just to see if we could get her to shift faster.
“I can take care of her,” I replied. “We’ll be out in the forest shortly. Are you still able to keep people out of there for the night? If all goes well, we’ll be gone by morning.”
He cocked his head to the side. “What place do you think will be safer for three supernaturals without a House than here?”
“I’m going to try to trust the unicorn.” Fuck, that was hard to say. “Once Kinsley knows more than just physical fighting, then we can see what was guiding Lia to Fire and Fluorite in the first place. There might be answers there as to who sent me after Kinsley.”
D glanced back briefly and then lowered his voice. “And what if those answers put you in deeper shit than you can handle on your own? Fire and Fluorite isn’t the best place to be right now, and they’re not taking too kindly to outsiders, given all that has happened.”
He wasn’t wrong, and those were all the reasons I hadn’t wanted to go there in the first place. I could handle myself, but protecting Kinsley at the same time? That would be harder. I could tell myself I didn’t care all I wanted, but nobody would get to her without going through me first.
I’d fucking torch that cursed House to the ground before I let them touch her.
