“They’re going to try and use their magic to counteract the Prince’s. We are going to cover them.” I turned my back to the skyline of skyscrapers behind me. “Saber, take Pierce and follow them. Be their eyes. Malik and Shi-Shi, go to the edge of the market. I want to know if anyone on Sweyn’s team heads their way. I have to get them transportation out of here now before Sweyn decides she wants to stay the night like she did in New Orleans. We have to get those siblings out of this city.”

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

FRANKIE

There were two things I hated about this meal. One, there weren’t nearly enough of us seated at the table. Two, it wasn’t Em’s fried chicken on my plate. Not that I didn’t understand why our Empress hadn’t cooked, I just hated the why behind it. I hated how badly she’d been injured. Losing your vision was a torture I wouldn’t wish on anyone. So, there were actually three things I hated.

But none of this I hated more than Everest not being here.

That moment with him in Seelie did something to me. Whatever part of me that was managing with him still being with Sweyn had snapped. It was taking every ounce of self-control to not blow that castle up and drag my man out of there. And if I was being honest with myself, that self-control was only coming in the form of my Coven Leaders forbidding it. They had their reasons, perfectly logical and smart reasons. I didn’t want any innocent person to get hurt because of me, and the idea some of those vampires weren’t on Lilith’s side was too strong a hope to disregard. Everest was a big boy. He’d been playing this espionage game a long, long time. I had to trust he would know when it was the right time to bail, even if I wanted it to be right now.