you into the nursery."
I took the phone and looked at the caller ID. Arden? Maybe it was Kyle. "Hello?"
"Please tell me you are not at Bell, Book and Candle." Kyle's tone immediately put me on the defensive.
"No, why?"
"Because Arden just got a heads up from her people in the police force that Prescott is on her way there to arrest you."
Bastien walked toward us at that moment, dressed in some obscenely tight jeans, boots, a blue t-shirt and he had damp hair. "Arrest me?" I looked up at him. "What the hell for?"
"Sam, you're not going to believe this, but they found Ina's body in the garden."
I opened my mouth, and then closed it. The world spun around me as I leaned against the side of the Gremlin and tried not to hyperventilate. "Wh-what?"
"They haven't positively ID'd the body, but she had her driver's license, her purse, and her credit cards all with her in the shallow grave. Arden's source says they're pretty sure it's her and you are their person of interest."
I reached out—I don't know why. It just felt like I was falling and there wasn't anything for me to grab a hold of. Bastien took my hand and stayed close as Dharma came to my other side. Grey bounded out of the woods and stood in front of me.
Sam?
"How did she die?"
"They don't know cause of death yet. But Sam…you know what this means, right?"
"Yeah, it means Dionysus is already in another body. How—how long had she been buried there?" And most importantly, why hadn't her body risen when Circe cast her spell last month?
"I don't know. We're getting the information piecemeal. Hold on." I could hear Kyle's deep voice and then someone else. "Where are you now?"
"We're with the Aces. Dharma, me and Grey."
"Where's Ivan? If he's there, he needs to get out."
That answered the question as to whether or not Blackwood had contacted Arden. Kyle didn't know. "Ivan's…not here."
"Well call him. I've been trying to get a hold of him all morning to see if he could maybe hack in and get a full report as it's filed," he paused. "Sam? What is it?"
Should I tell him? There was too much to say over the phone. I looked at Dharma, who seemed to know what I was thinking and shook her head. "It's…I have a way into Alfheim. But I need a place to use it. A place the police won't interrupt."
"What do you mean you have a way in? You're not going into Alfheim, are you? You've been telling me for months how you'd never go back there."
"I have to. There's no choice anymore." This was true. There might have been a way to lure Brendi here, but not with Ivan there. I had no idea where he was in the whole of the Faerie kingdoms. Finding Crwys would be easy. Finding Ivan would probably be harder.
"Come to Gypsy Gardens. Arden and I are the only ones here."
That seemed like the perfect place to use the staff. The police would have no reason to interfere there. And it was close to where we were. "We'll be there in about an hour."
I disconnected and put my hands to my face before I filled the others in on what Kyle told me.
"I don't understand," Dharma said. "Ivan said there was a Leviathan inside of Ina."
"That's the problem," I said. "His name is Dionysus. If Ina's body's been in that grave since October, it means he could be anywhere, in any body because he got that soul. And whoever's body he's using might not even realize they've got a monster inside of them."
Bastien remained oddly silent up until Ben brought the Alpha's motorcycle forward. I saw a few dents I didn't notice before and wondered if those were from the fall the night before. Bastien took the bike and straddled it. Ben handed me my pack and I checked inside to make sure I had the book. I set the pack on the hood of the Gremlin and retrieved the drawstring bag. I knew the book was inside, but I felt compelled to touch it. This book could be the key to getting Crwys back. When I put my hand inside the bag and touched the book, I got a jolt of electricity and a huge transparent sign appeared in front of my eyes.
It was one of Ivan's text messages.
COME AND GET ME!
Everyone saw it until I let go of the book. I guess in some weird