My body crashed into the wall of the Seelie tunnels so hard my breath was knocked from my lungs. My legs gave out. I crashed onto my knees on the bright-green vines. Pain laced up my thighs. One second we were fighting for our lives in New Orleans, the next I was on all fours gasping for breath in the Seelie tunnels. All around me I heard the coughing and relieved curses from my Coven-mates. We were alive.

Everest had saved us.

Everest saved us. Everest was in the sunlight. I flopped onto my ass and sat up, looking up to find that beautiful face of his flushed with rage. I saw it. I felt it flowing through him. He was furious. Those white and blue eyes were blazing. His gaze was sharp as he moved from person to person with a nod as if he was counting that we were all there.

Tegan hissed like a cat and curled over, burying her face in her hands and hair. Tenn cursed and dove for her. The second his hands touched her, she threw herself into his chest. She put her hands up to the sides of her face like she was blocking light and then Tenn covered her hands with his.

Everest glanced at them, then did a double take and cursed. “Sorry, Tegan. You’re going to have to suffer through the tunnel for a moment.”

She groaned. Tenn wrapped his thick arms around her head like he was smothering her in his chest. But she fisted his shirt in her hands and held on tight.

Tenn sighed. “Thanks for the save. Again⁠—”

“What were you thinking?” Everest yelled, his voice raised and his cheeks flushed. “You knew that was a trap and you went anyway⁠—”

“It’s my fault. It was my fault.” Cooper was bent over with his hands on his knees. “I should’ve paid closer attention to the dream, should’ve talked to you before I told them what I saw.”

Everest scrubbed his face with his hands. “Be easy on your conscience, Mr. Bishop. You are only eighteen years old. He is nearing eighteen-hundred. This is what he does, what they do.”

“You said he.” Tenn cocked his head to the side. “You think the Prince sent that dream to Cooper? Not Sweyn⁠—”

“Sweyn does not have that power,” Everest answered softly. He ran a hand through his hair, pushing it back off his face. “Is everyone all right? Anyone injured?”

I shook my head and glanced around to see everyone was fine. No blood. No injuries. We’d made it out of that one with a shit ton of luck.

“Wait, when I first got to Eden . . .” I stared off into the tunnel wall as I replayed the memory in my mind. “Sweyn had lured me from my dream to go outside⁠—”