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“And it’s time you move back into my suite now. The dust around here has settled, and I can’t be away from you, even for a little while.”
My heart pounded at the suggestion, but I immediately nodded. “Yes,” I agreed. “I’m ready to move back in with you.”
We held onto one another silently for a long moment until Zen broke the quiet. “Have you seen Cyndella since you’ve been back?”
All of my uneasiness returned with the simple query. “No… why?”
“Just asking. She’s been keeping to her wing, mostly.”
I stared at him warily. “Is she going to make my life difficult, Zen?”
“We already talked about this, Miri. You have nothing to worry about as long as you’re with me. Understand? I’m not going to let anything happen to you. I promise.”
I nodded and dropped my head against his chest, allowing his steady, confident heartbeat to lull me back into submission. I wanted to believe that everything was going to be okay, but it was so hard when I never knew what tomorrow was going to bring.
Chapter13
Zen
“NO! Absolutely not!”
I stepped closer, crossing my arms over my chest to show just how serious I was about not obliging her demands, but Endora did not flinch.
“You asked me to do this,” she insisted. “And now that I have, you don’t want to abide by my findings.”
“You went beyond what I asked you to do,” I growled, shaking my head vehemently. “What good could this possibly do? You don’t even know what’s out there.”
“That’s the point, isn’t it?” Mirielle piped in softly.
I’d almost forgotten that she was there in my adamance. I turned toward my mate in sheer disbelief, blinking.
“You want to go back out to the Locaza Forest again?” I demanded. “If I recall, you didn’t like it the first time. And for what? This fool’s errand?”
Sighing, Mirelle rose from the wing chair in the corner and began to pace around the room, shooting Endora a quick glance which I read easily.
She was saying “I told you so” to Endora.
“That’s the thing, though, Zen,” Mirelle said slowly. “It wasn’t my first time in the Locaza Forest.”
“Right. You’d been there before with Agnan,” I growled sarcastically. “It must be rife with pleasant memories. There’s no reason for us to go back there.”
She waved her head. “That’s not what I mean, either.”
I whirled back to confront the enchantress. “You put this in her head. I entrusted you to clear her mind, and now you’re filling her head with whacky ideas!”
“No,” Endora corrected me. “I took thisoutof her head. I dug deep like I told you I would, and this is what I found.”
“But what did you find?” I snapped, refusing to accept this quest that Endora had thrown at me. “You haven’t given me anything but a ‘vision’ you’ve had.”
“It’s not a vision, Zen,” Endora said again. “I’m telling you, this is something that I got from Mirielle’s own mind. She’s repressed this memory from before. There is something in those woods, something that needs to be found.”
“She’s not wrong, Zen,” Mirielle told me pleadingly. “I felt it too when I went out there. I couldn’t place it, but now that Endora put it into words…”
“It doesn’t make any sense.”
“That’s why we need to go,” Mirielle insisted. “To make it make sense.”
I still wasn’t buying it, but I was clearly outnumbered, both females staring at me with naked belief.
