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I glare at him, shaking my head but leaning up on my tippy toes to kiss against his lips softly. “If you get me pregnant, Knight,” I bat my lashes up at him sweetly, “I will fuck you up.”
He barks out a laugh at my otherwise human response, waving his hand out lazily. The heaviness of clothes back on my skin makes me more annoyed than I would have hoped, but I love that he didn’t wash himself off me.
“Fuck, this is a disaster...” I whisper, looking down at Rathe as we orbit from up above.
“It’s going to be fine. The people have never liked the Ministry, I merely did something that they’ve all wanted to happen for too long now.”
He hugs me from behind, kissing me on top of my head just as his phone starts ringing in his pocket.
“Well fuck. My brother’s timing is getting worse.”
He answers, hitting speaker. I don’t know why that comforts me. Maybe because it shows that he isn’t hiding any more secrets from me, or maybe it’s just all in my head.
“Yo, we’ve got a problem...” Legend’s voice comes through the phone and the hairs on the back of my neck stand straight. “Get to the grounds. Now.”
Winds wrap aroundus and before my next blink, our feet hit the pavement.
Knight goes stiff against me, and I look up at him, brows furrowing.
“Knight, what's wro—”
“Hello …bestie.”
Ice prickles against my skin and I suck in a sharp breath. Slowly, my head turns over my shoulder, my blue eyes connecting with a very familiar pair.
“Temperance?”
Twenty-Nine
Knight
Tension wrapsaround my muscles and my eyes cut to Sin’s.
This is our triplet, the blood we shared a connection like no other with ... once upon a time. Yet she stood there beside the council and drove the dagger into our guts with a smile.
The same smile she wears now as she stands in the heart of Rathe, chin held high … our people kneeling before her with stars in their eyes. To them, their long-lost princess lives. She returns to them.
But they don’t know she betrayed us, and we don’t know why she did or where she’s been. I saw the vision in my father's memories. She lay dead on the floor.
I think back a moment, my brows pull.
No, she layunconscious.There was no blood to be seen, no wound, just the shaken foundation of the thousand-year-old walls and utter destruction of the room.
Mother had said no one could know, but what did that mean exactly?
“Oh my god...” London whispers, pulling free of my hold. “Temperance!”
She darts forward, arms stretched out, and horror slams into me as I realize what she’s doing.
She doesn’t know because I’ve yet to tell her.
She’s running, rushing to hug the girl who was once her best friend. The girl she thought she’d killed for a time when her manipulated memories shifted.
She's fast, and I was in my head and she’s nearly reached her now.
I jerk at the same time as my brothers, but it’s too late, London has thrown herself into the hands of the enemy.
Before we can snatch her back, Temperance snaps her fingers, smiling over her shoulder and they disappear through a portal.
