My leg starts bouncing as Keir pulls from the curb.
Fifteen minutes later, we reach the gate to Selene’s house. Guards stand outside, eyeing us.
Keir rolls down the window. “Here to see Selene.”
The guard narrows his eyes. “And you are?”
Shit. What if we’re blacklisted?
“Keir—” he starts to answer, but the guard cuts him off.
“Let me make a call.” He grunts and walks to the shack, phone in hand, never taking his eyes off us.
“You think they’ll let us in?” I ask.
“They fucking better,” Kaz growls.
The guard stays on the phone a long, tense minute before returning.
“Guess it’s your lucky day.” He leans down to the window. “Lily approved your entry. Don’t expect it to last.”
He returns to the shack and the gate creaks open.
Keir pulls through heading up the driveway.
On the steps ahead, Lily stands with Max and someone else. Lily looks pissed, arms crossed and foot tapping. Max stands rigid, scowling.
The third person—
“Holy fuck,” Keir breathes.
I see her clearly now. My jaw drops.
“Katherine,” Kaz says, stunned.
Keir slams the SUV into park. Kaz throws the door open and barrels out. Keir and I are right behind him.
“Katherine,” Kaz says again, firmer this time.
She eyes him coldly.
“You left,” she says, voice sharp as glass.
Then—bam—she punches him right in the face. It doesn’t faze him, but it sure stuns him.
“I don’t give a damn that you left me,” she spits. “But you left her.”
Her glare slices across all of us. And then she turns, stalking into the house.
Lily snorts. “Well. I guess the easy part’s over.”
Max says nothing, still scowling.
“Where is she?” Keir asks the question we’re all dying to know.
Lily makes us wait. She stares us down, dragging it out.
Then finally, she sighs. “She’s in her room. I’ll take you.”
