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“Thank you for your forgiveness, Charlie,” Savida added.
His quiet remark let all the air out of me. “Don’t mention it. Now go pack. And Daithi, maybe have a lie-down. You look like shit.”
Daithi’s eyes suddenly rolled into the back of his head, and he collapsed on the sofa.
“It definitely wasn’t me this time,” I announced quickly as Savida rushed to his soul mate’s side.
“It’s all right, Charlie. He has just fallen into a vision.” Savida frowned and stroked Daithi’s brow, smoothing out the wrinkles. “I should have thought. After a vision and creating two portals, he is worn out, which is usually when he is attacked with visions. He will be exhausted when he wakes up.” He lifted Daithi into his arms and carried him to their room.
Seeing Daithi cuddled and unconscious in Savida’s arms was a bit of a head fuck. Daithi never seemed vulnerable or small, but he looked that way with a giant demon carrying him.
When their door closed, I unplugged my phone and made the call.
“Hello?” Joseph Northrop’s voice was clear and calm.
“Hi, Joe, it’s Charlie. I don’t know if your team leaders have updated you—”
“Charlie, yes.” He sounded relieved to hear from me. “They said you and Zaide left the crash site to retrieve Clawdia and our agent, Rose.”
At least it actually was other team leaders that I left Alcor and the others with, rather than hunters looking for an easy kill.
“We did. But I’m sorry, your agent died. We couldn’t save her.” I’d barely had time to think about the woman we’d had to leave there. I didn’t know if Fafnir had killed her or if the collapsed building did. Either way, it was bad news.
Joe sighed. “And the dragon?”
“Is Fafnir. From the legend. He can shapeshift. If we were still unsure, I can confirm he and the protector were raised before.” I rubbed my forehead again as my phone beeped a warning for low battery.
“This plot is getting tiresome. What happened to Fafnir?”
“He managed to escape the rubble of a factory he destroyed from the inside out and fly after us. We were then attacked by hunters.”
“You are safe now?”
I stared out of the window overlooking the car park. “We are at the apartment, but we aren’t safe. They will soon be able to track us down again. We had to abandon the car. I’m looking for a new place to—“
Joseph stopped me. “No need. I think you should come to us. We are moving base and taking the protector with us. The hunters are making aggressive moves, so it’s time for all our people to go to ground.”
“Go to ground where?” I frowned.
I don’t have time to get Savida a passport.
“It’s not safe to give that information over the phone, Charlie. Surely you understand that. But it’s protected, and we are stronger in numbers.”
“I don’t need ID?” I asked.
“We will arrange everything you need.”
It was a non-answer, but it reassured me. “All right. Saves me a job, I suppose. Can you pick us up?”
“I’ll have a team sent your way within the hour.”
Before he could cut the call I asked, “Alcor and the others, are they okay?”
“They had similar trouble with hunters on the way back. But they are in safe hands now and getting medical treatment at our private facility. You’ll see them when you get here,” he informed me and abruptly hung up.
I couldn’t be mad. He was saving our bacon.
I plugged my phone back in and headed for a shower, desperate to take off my destroyed jeans. Zaide was leaving the bathroom as I turned down the corridor. His skin looked better, clean and healing, but his eyes were half closed as he stumbled down the corridor with his towel around his waist, his long hair trailing behind him like a soggy rope.
