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"Where's MacRieve now?"

Cade answered, "Rydstro him"

"Did you catch the look in the Lykae's eyes when she had him pinned?" Tierney said around bites of fruit "He'd known she was going to kill him" He frowned at Mari "It's hard to see you now and think you're the one that destroyed the to her as if she was a curiosity - with awhen you said you blow things up, were you?"

"Leave her alone" Tera sat beside Mari and stroked her tangled hair "Can't you tell Mariketa's shell-shocked?"

Shell-shocked, confused, and disgusted by how filthy she was She could s doused in the pouring rain She was also wondering what the plan was now -

MacRieve and Rydstrom entered the cave Everyone but Mari scra in here?" Cade de to his sword hilt

"Cade, I'll talk with you outside," Rydstroly "All of you I've neant to discuss"

Tera cast a scathing expression in MacRieve's direction "And MacRieve?"

"Leave hi with Mariketa?" Tierney asked

Without looking up, Mari answered in a soft tone, "If the Lykae tries so with Mariketa, she'll finish what she started before"

Rydstrom raised his eyebrows at that, then turned for the cave entrance The others reluctantly followed

Alone with her, MacRieve paced, glancing at her repeatedly and e - her h curse words and the terhts

Over MacRieve's , she could hear the others' conversation outside Rydstro ould happen if Mari didn't call her coven before the fullher back

The others decided that they would be the ones to see her home for myriad reasons First, they planned to kill MacRieve directly and so didn't see him available for the role of escort Secondly, they wanted to protect "the littlethe fey, and Cade, because, as he said, "I bloody feel like it"

In that case, Rydstrom wanted them to spare the Lykae to allow him to be an extra sword They would need him, he reasoned, to protect Mari on the journey to civilization because it was more perilous now than when she'd come on her own The human armies were on the move and posed a real threat to her

But the others despised MacRieve, couldn't trust hireed that "Bowen the Bitter doesn't exactly play ith others"

Bowen the Bitter? How appropriate

They also agreed that they didn't know a more brutal, ruthless, and underhanded immortal than Bowen MacRieve

MacRieve scowled in their direction, then turned back to her, as if he hoped she hadn't heard that He opened his mouth to speak but closed it What did he want to say to her? What could he say? "Oh,you up for torture and terror, and I know you will never be the saet free," he finally said "I never intended for you to be trapped so long"