Thorne took my elbow and gently dragged me back so Silas had room to flip onto his feet. He took a couple hard breaths and then rolled his shoulders, which looked funny on a huge dragon. Then Silas looked to the black dragon and nodded.

Tenn pressed his hand to his own chest. “Thank you for saving our asses again. Please get to safety as fast as possible. Don’t worry about the humans.”

Both of them shot into the sky, and as I craned my neck back to watch them fly away, I realized that the brown dragon with the spiked tail and the smaller navy-blue dragon had been waiting. Together all four of them rushed into the dark cover of clouds and vanished.

“Thorne—”

“None of us are fine, Haven.” Thorne shook his head. White angel wings popped from his back. “Try to stay in Eden until I return to the realm.”

Then he was gone.

I frowned. “Return to the realm . . . Did he go to Seelie?”

“I think he was going to Heaven, and no, that’s not a comforting thought to me either.” Tenn smirked and nodded his head toward the house. “C’mon, Tegan got everyone else inside. Let’s catch up.”

When we crossed the threshold into the house, all I heard was shouting.

“All right! Enough!” Tenn barked.

Instantly, everyone quieted and settled into a seat. I took that moment to do an inventory check on everyone and wanted to cry when I didn’t see any other new injuries. We’d somehow managed to get out of Avolire without anyone getting hurt.

“Why are you smiling?” Warner pointed to me, then to his own face. “That’s kind of creepy . . .”

I grimaced. “I was just relieved no one had gotten hurt in Avolire just now⁠—”

“Cooper was beheaded!” Easton shouted so loud we all flinched.

Savannah gagged and covered her mouth with her hand. Hunter, Kessler, and Bentley all shuddered. Emersyn glared at Tegan, who actually looked rocked by her own shenanigans.

A tense silence filled the room.

Then Cooper shuddered dramatically and made a sound similar to a horse neighing. “I don’t know how to recover from the out-of-body experience of watching myself get beheaded.”

Savannah wretched and waved her arms.

Hunter cringed. “I agree with Savannah. Can we please stop talking about . . . just maybe stop verbalizing the . . . Fuck, I need a lobotomy now.” He scrubbed his face with his hands.

Tenn bent over and put his hands on his knees, then shook his head. “I’d actually managed to forget about that horrifying moment, so thanks, Easton.”

Easton grimaced as he adjusted the sling holding his broken arm. “Sorry, I just keep seeing it over and over. I mean, Tegan, was that you? Or Willow?”