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His lips moved, wide enough that I was sure he'd shouted.
Give her back.
The unease crawling through me became full-on panic. What if I was trapped like this forever?
A low laugh stabbed my skull with an instant migraine, the pain so brutal that my legs collapsed from under me.6I screamed, my hands sluggishly rising to my ears to block out the blinding pain. But the laugh wasinsidemy head, rumbling through my skull like a thunderstorm. I dropped my head, tucking it between my knees.
"You ordered me to killthem,so why are you targetingher?"Wynvail demanded, his voice walking a fine line of control. Barely polite, and not careful at all.
Wait. My breath hitched, a tremor moving through my hands. I could hear him now… Not fast and shrieking butnormal.
I lifted my head, panting, my jaw clenched on a cry.
"Thank you," Wynvail bit out, and stalked across the stone corridor to me. Murder was written in every one of his features, his rage endless.
Kai got to me before him, scooping me up and pressing me into a hug.
Fuck, it felt so good to be held. My eyes stung. I’d been so scared I’d be stuck that way forever, always separated from my mates.
I gripped him tightly, gulping down lungfuls of his scent and tasting blood, all my limbs shaking.
"What happened?" Kai demanded, his voice strained and sharp as his hands ran over every part of me. Checking for wounds and broken bones. "Wherewereyou?"
"Still here," I rasped, squeezing him tighter, my eyes screwed shut as I fought not to fall apart. "Just fucking slow."
"I'll retrieve the others. Don't go anywhere," Wynvail muttered, waiting until I met his eyes. He gave me a long, searching stare, his intensity making my face burn, and nodded.
He took a step—and vanished.
I choked on a cry of surprise, my body jerking in Kai’s arms. Is that what I looked like when everything went sluggish and scary?
"What the fuck?" Kai exploded, tightening his arms around me. He bared his teeth like the threat would see him and rethink attacking. Like the threat wasn’t a myth come to life.
"Cronus made him slow," I breathed—and jolted again when another, worse realisation hit."Em! Harvey!"
I refused to let go of Kai; I dug my fingers into his arm as I got to my feet and spun, scanning the Labyrinth. Wynvail was here somewhere.7
"What are we gonna do?" Kai asked, staring at the empty corridor, arms banded like iron around me.
I shook my head, mentally giving my panic the middle finger. "Find Em and Harvey. After that? Not a clue. Who knows what else Cronus will throw at us."
Hopefully not literally.
8
Em and Harvey weren’t by the entrance. And in hindsight, I should have known that flying wouldn't work, but how else was I supposed to see where my mates were in this giant bloody Labyrinth?
Kai watched anxiously from below as I flapped higher and higher, my heart hammering at just how tall the walls were. There was no hope of scaling them; there were no handholds, no grooves beyond the hairline crack between new and old stone, but that was too slight to offer any help.
So up I flew, ignoring the aches that made themselves known, my wings still tender from crashing into the Labyrinth in the first place.1The air grew thinner up here, a strange lightness filling my body, buoying my wings.
Holy fuck, this might work.
Kai shouted a question from below, but I was so high up I couldn't hear him.
"Nothing yet," I yelled back, winging my reply.2I tipped my head back, the top of the walls swiftly approaching. I wasn't sure I wanted to see this place from above. What if it was as big as a city? What if it was bigger than Iarlon?
Above me was only a flat expanse of grey, what I’d assumed was the sky from below. But there were no clouds. Nothing. Just greyness.
