own spies, so they’ve heard whisperings of what he’s trying to do.” He frowned down at the pictures of what used to be our family home. “I should kill him for those drapes alone.” He sat down next to me. “I’m sorry you had to face him alone today.”
I was glad I’d had the chance. If Dev had his way, he would have hustled me out, and then I wouldn’t know that Myrddin believed Sarah was alive. “I think I got some good intel.”
“Yes. I saw that you wrote it up for Sasha. Thank you for doing that.”
“Devinshea, I remember how to play this game. I know I’ve been depressed, but I’m not going to hide in here forever. I’ve got a job to do.”
He studied me for a moment. “I thought you wanted to find a way to get back.”
I shrugged. “I haven’t given up on that, but I have to help out where I can.”
“I don’t think you should go,” Dev said with a frown. “If Myrddin gets his hands on you…”
“Then you need to rescue me.” I’d thought a lot about this. “You have to know he won’t kill me. If he wants to use the energy in Gladys to close off the doors to the celestial planes, he needs me alive so my blood can activate the sword. I’m the queen of the companions. No one else will do. And since he hasn’t had his grimoire for years, I suspect he’ll need a moment before he’s ready. It won’t be the first time I had to survive in enemy territory, and hey, I was pregnant then, too. At least I don’t have to worry that Myrddin’s going to want me to put out.”
“Goddess,” he breathed. Dev’s jaw went tight, and I realized I’d touched a sore spot that had healed for me long ago. Dev, not so much.
I reached out and put a hand over his. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to sound so cold. I’m only telling you that I can handle whatever he throws our way.”
Dev stood, pulling away from me physically. “You shouldn’t have had to do it the first time. I’ll be damned if you do it again. Maybe you’re right. Maybe we should put all of our efforts into getting out of this.”
The door came open again and Daniel strode in. “Getting out of this war? Have you talked to your brother again? Is he willing to let us in? Once Lee turns, we won’t have to worry about him as much.”
He wasn’t thinking straight, and that made me wonder if he’d heard me, too. It sucks to be surrounded by supernatural hearing. It makes gossiping and complaining under my breath hard, and those are two of my favorite hobbies. “Being in one of the sitheins attached to the Earth plane won’t help us. The demons will merely find a way in once they’re done playing here.”
“It could buy us decades,” Danny mused.
“And still end the same way. What happened today that has you both on edge?” It wasn’t merely what I’d said. It couldn’t be. “Was it the wolves? Or Declan?”
“It was both, and then we’ve got the issue with Zack.” Danny sat on the edge of the bed. “The blood worked for a little while. Now he’s feeling tired again. Worse than he was before. Lisa wants to take him back out to the woods, but I’m worried Myrddin would simply find him and finish the job. He knows where to look.”
“He met me miles away in Reykjavík,” I pointed out. “I wasn’t strolling around the mountainside. But it does make me wonder how he knew. Especially since he suggested he was the one who sent Declan.”
Dev nodded. “Declan received word shortly after we returned. According to him, he knew we were back within hours.”
That meant one thing. “He’s got spies at the Council building. I thought they got rid of all the Fae.”
“All the ones they can see,” Dev replied.
Ah, so Declan’s hidden guard was hard at work. That could play in my favor if he ordered them to help me. If I could trust them. They would always work in the best interests of Faery. I would rather work with spies who Sasha trusted. “That explains how he knew we were back, but not where we are now. Has anyone checked Alexander’s communications? Does he pop outside to use a cell?”
“Zoey, he’s been here in Frelsi for a week and he hasn’t left once, nor has he