I frowned and did as she said, blasting my own neck with my own magic. There was a flash of neon-blue and pink and then everyone gasped. Their eyes were wide. I looked down and my own jaw dropped. It looked different than it did in Avolire. Sure, the black lines still covered my throat, but now in the center of my chest was a heart-shaped crystal the color of red wine.

My pulse quickened. “Doesn’t red mean danger? Is he okay⁠—”

“That’s not the danger shade of red.” Tegan pursed her lips and stared at me. “But I do believe the meaning of this dark-red indicates the overall danger in your lives. Besides, there’s no way to contact him to check on him.”

Tenn shook his head. “All right, cover that back up. The last thing we want to do is reveal the truth to Sweyn or Lilith before he’s ready.”

I nodded and blasted my magic at myself again, figuring it worked the same way, and sure enough It disappeared once again. “He needs to be ready soon or I might lose my mind.”

The soulmate couples in the room all grimaced and nodded.

“Cooper isn’t your soulmate.” Thiago scoffed. “Cooper isn’t dead. What a night. Damn.”

Cooper scowled and cocked his head to the side, his green eyes sharpening. “Your soulmate chopped my head off . . . Should I be worried for my safety?”

Easton rolled his blue eyes. “C’mon, Cooper, the dude just brought a soul back to life. I think he can tell when one is right in front of him.”

Like the flip of a switch, the energy in the room turned ice-cold.

“Brought a soul back to life . . .” Kessler pinched the bridge of his nose. “Is that what happened? Is . . . is Libby . . . alive?”

Tenn groaned and plopped down on the brick ledge in front of the fireplace. “I don’t know. I don’t understand.”

I raised my hand. “Libby was The Devil Card at some point, right?”

“Right before Deacon.” Emersyn spoke softly, her golden gaze locked on the flames in the hearth. “She died . . . and that brought us Deacon.”

“Babe . . . what the fuck just happened?”

Tegan stared at the ground. “I . . . I honestly don’t know. Promise. I was as shocked as y’all. We will have to wait to get answers from Everest on that. Among other things.”

Kessler cleared his throat. “He pulled her . . . she came out of . . . was that tar?”

Lennox shuddered and hissed. “That was unsettling. Maybe black magic?”

Everyone turned to Savannah.

Her eyes were bloodshot as she gnawed on her fingernails. She shook her head. “I don’t know,” she whispered.

I glanced up to Cooper and then away before anyone else noticed why Savannah was so shaken. Or if they did notice, they were pretending they didn’t. I loved that about my Coven-mates: they knew how to read a room and how to handle it.