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“What have you done with Lysandra? Is she still in there somewhere?” I demanded. “Where is Elix?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she spat, spinning toward the front of the house. “But if you want your mate to live, I suggest you come with me so we can discuss what comes next.”
The desire to pin her down and rip the veins out of her throat overwhelmed me, but without seeing Elix and knowing for certain that she wasn’t entangled in some kind of trap, I had no choice but to follow the fae and do as she asked.
Lysandra peeked over her small shoulder to ensure I was following, and I could see that I was unnerving her, trailing behind.
“Where is she, Agnan?”
She faltered in her steps but threw open the screen door. “For your sake, I would stop with that nonsense,” she hissed.
Calling her Agnan was striking a nerve, but I decided to stop pushing it for now. I needed to play his game if I wanted Elix.
Inside the quaint farmhouse, Lysandra threw me a blanket to cover up my nudity. I caught it with my right hand, but I was less concerned with my modesty than I was with Elix.
Her presence overwhelmed me here. Elix was here.
“If what you’re saying about me is true,” Lysandra purred, “think about how easy it would be for me to take over Elix’s body if anything were to happen to poor Lysandra.”
The words were a knife to my soul.
“You wouldn’t!” I choked, appalled by the idea that Agnan would overtake Elix’s form the way he had Lysandra’s.
“Why wouldn’t I?” Lysandra smiled sweetly at me. “Imagine the power I could hold as Elix, controlling all the elements?”
My head reeled at the thought.
“Would you be able to kill Agnan if he looked just like your precious soulmate?” she asked conversationally.
“She’s your blood!” I choked. “Lysandra, too! How can you treat them like this?”
“That’s exactly why. I have every right to treat them like this. They’re mine.”
And now it was confirmed. The being in Lysandra’s bodywasAgnan.
“Where is she?” I demanded, panic swelling inside me. “ELIX!”
I pushed past Agnan, resisting the urge to kill the fae as I moved. The threat was too real, his power too unknown to me. Could he do what he said?
Why hasn’t he already if he could?a little, logical voice demanded, but it was lost in my concern for Elix.
“ELIX!” I howled again. “What have you done with her?!”
“Shh!” Agnan in Lysandra’s form held up a slender hand. “Let’s make a deal first, shall we?”
My eyes narrowed as the tiny brunette neared me. “What deal?”
“I’ll leave Elix alone if you do what I ask.”
I stared at the fae—or was he a warlock?—dumbly. “What the fuck does that mean, Agnan?”
Lysandra grimaced, but she didn’t correct me. “I’m not asking for much,” the fae reassured me. “You will continue to rule Goldhaven and marry your queen, your mate… but Elix will make me one of her advisors. I am her sister, after all. It will make sense to anyone looking in.”
“All four kingdoms are looking for you as we speak! It won’t make sense to anybody for you to become an advisor.”
“You can change that, too, Alpha,” the leader of the Order growled. “You’ll call off the hounds if you know what’s good for you and your mate.”
It was on the tip of my tongue to ask him how well his threats had worked out for him with Zen and Mirielle, but my desire to see Elix far outweighed my need to antagonize him.
