engulfed us.
Before I wanted it to end, the pleasure took me again and Marcus found his own. I could feel his deep satisfaction, his contentment in being here with me. He didn’t want to leave. He wanted to stay with me forever.
But he finally sank onto my body. I rested my head against his.
“Can we stay for a bit longer?”
His head came up and he kissed me. “Yes, a bit, cara mia.”
He shifted, taking me with him, and we lay in bed and talked for the longest time.
* * * *
Zoey
I looked down at the pixie in my hand and I couldn’t stop the cry of despair that came from me. We were trapped on another plane. We had no idea where Devinshea was. Our children were unprotected, and I had no idea how much time was passing as we sat here. And I couldn’t save my friend.
“Zoey, I’m so sorry.” Danny got to one knee beside me. “Can she drink vampire blood?”
I glanced up at him, and a bit of hope sparked through me. I wasn’t sure if it would bring her back. She was dead from the side effects of a spell. Would vampire blood work on it? The pixies normally stayed away from the vampires, but we should try. “Give her some.”
I held my hands up, offering him Arwyna’s tiny body. He would have to be careful or she could drown. We would only need a drop or two.
Daniel stared down, his expression oddly blank.
“What’s wrong?” I asked because we were running out of time. We were already risking bringing her back as a revenant, and I wasn’t sure what a revenant pixie would look like. I probably didn’t want to find out, but I couldn’t give up on her. I was the reason she’d been wandering the corridors of the Council headquarters. I’d asked her to spy for me. She knew I didn’t trust Myrddin and that was likely why she’d been around him and available for Liv to put the whammy on.
“Zoey, I…” Daniel began.
“Zoey!”
Whatever Danny had been ready to say got lost in the wake of Devinshea running toward us from the copse of trees. He was dressed as he’d been the night of the wedding. His long legs ate the distance between us, and I saw Kelsey running with him alongside a young man I’d never met.
He was here. Dev was here and he was safe. Tears clouded my eyes as he made it to me. He would have wrapped his arms around me, but I had Arwyna in my hands and she was his, too. She’d been his ambassador to the lesser Fae time and time again. Arwyna had adored her good priest, and when she wasn’t with me, she could be seen clinging to Dev’s clothes or hair as he moved about our home. Dev would be devastated. I needed him. I needed some normalcy, and having them both with me would give a bit of that back.
“What?” Dev stared down at the small body in my hands. “Arwyna? What happened to her?”
Tears coursed down my face. “She’s the one who found you, and the spell they used killed her.”
“How long has she been gone?” Dev asked, holding his hands out for me to transfer her body to.
“Seconds,” Daniel replied. “I was going to try to give her blood.”
Dev shook his head and suddenly his eyes changed and I was in the presence of Bris. “No, Daniel. That won’t work on our little queen. She needs a breath of life.”
He brought his cupped hands up and breathed into them. Once and then again. His eyes glowed in what I assumed to be the afternoon light. I held my own breath and then her wings moved.
Arwyna flew from her priest’s hands and seemed more like an angry bee than her normal graceful pixie self. She buzzed around me and I caught sight of her shaking her fist.
That was one pissed-off pixie, but it looked like she was alive, and not some crazed revenant out for blood. Well, at least not ours. Liv might find out soon that pixies are good at revenge.
“My goddess, you are all right?” Bris stared down at me.
I nodded and let him pull me into his arms. “I am now that I know you’re all right. I was so worried.”
He enveloped me in his unique warmth even as I could still hear Arwyna cursing all witches. “My goddess, Daniel, it is good to see you. I’ve been worried