Her gaze found mine. “She thinks a portal was summoned in the area, though she’ll need more time to confirm it.” I waited on bated breath. “There’s no evidence of anyone there. She couldn’t get eyes on Vivienne or anyone in the area.”
My pulse was pounding in my ears. “You think she…”
“If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say One has found V and used Kate to lure her to the Fae realm. It was suggested One is a Royal Siren, so—”
“They can travel through the realms at will,” I finished, growling with my blood pumping hard and fast. If I didn’t calm myself down, I’d lose control and that wouldn’t be of any help to V.
Sloan looked exactly how I felt. “Do you think Cash and Jo made it in time?”
Rose hummed and peered down at her phone screen. “We can’t be sure, but she said nothing about a fight. She’d sense the aftermath of one. Since they haven’t returned, it’s my hope they crossed over in time to bring her back. Or at the very least, help her fight.”
Fight…
What I’d learned about Royal Sirens from V set my teeth on edge. It was driving me fucking crazy to think she was somewhere I couldn’t go, up against someone I wasn’t strong enough to help her defeat. None of my inventions could help us cross into other realms, and the Organization hadn’t achieved realm travel. Not that I knew about anyway.
We were stuck here.
“You’re saying we just have to…wait?” Kris asked the question I was too scared to voice, knowing the answer.
Rose let loose a breath and frowned. “We continue to organize here. We support her in her venture to overthrow the Organization and put our faith in Jo and Cash to helpher wherever she is. That’s what wecanandwilldo for my granddaughter.”
As if she hadn’t torn me apart with her words, Rose left the house and the three of us stood in a semi-circle, unable to move or speak.
Chapter 5
Best Friend Meets Fairy Boy
Kate sat staring at us with her eyes wide, mouth open, messy hair flopped to one side, and a trail of dried drool that took a path from one side of her mouth to her cheek.
My best friend was an assault on my carefully projected calm. The way she looked threatened to make all the words I’d chosen and worked so hard to deliver without emotion moot if I laughed. She couldn’t think this was a joke. Nothing about what happened was. But the absolute hilarity of her expression was close to making it seem that way.
“You’re…joking?” she asked, the last bit high-pitched and warped by confusion. “I mean, I’d absolutely know if my best friend was a crazy badass who fought monsters and had fangs, right? I wouldn’t miss something that huge? Not me…the best friend in both name and glory.”
“Sorry, Kate.”
Her messy bun flopped forward as she threw her face into her hands. “This shit iscrazysauce.”
Cash had concealed his features after a long argument before we woke Kate. Pretty and ethereal didn’t cover the feeling ofhim, but I didn’t want to scare her when she woke up. I’d say everything first, then show her the craziness. She’d need something to prove it all.
He was of the opposite opinion. He argued that it was easier to accept what was right in front of your face and it was pointless to wait. Of course, I eventually won after glaring and crossing my arms.
It didn’t really take much with Cash. Unlike Sloan and Phillip, he did whatever I wanted despite initially arguing. As if his complaints were mere foreplay to him and only there to add spice.
“I don’t expect you to believe me right away—”
Kate wrapped her arms around me out of nowhere, in a room that was oddly human feeling. “You must’ve been so lonely carrying this secret all this time without anyone to talk to. Without your bestie to whine about all things supernatural.”
“What—”
“It must’ve been so hard for you,” she went on, mumbling and squeezing me tight. “And now my oblivious human ass got us kidnapped to another world.”
“None of this is your fault, Kate. Everything is because of me,” I said firmly, still locked in her embrace. “They took you to get to me.”
Speaking of which…
“I thought you said that people couldn’t be dragged through portals?” I asked Cash over Kate’s shoulder. My best friend still refused to let me go, so I stayed her prisoner with a gentle return hug and a couple pats to her back.
The Dark Fae smirked. “Supernaturally inclined can’t be. Humans are another thing entirely, love. You’ll find that humans exist in both realms, though their existence here is...a bit different from what you’re used to.”
