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“Jocelyn isand yet you all joke about a stupid huirl as if she has any importance in this world”

My forearm burned, but I didn’t raise my shirtsleeves or even rehter iswere inked into my arm because Genevieve knew exactly where she’d left Jocelyn

Xavier’s attention slid to the angry witch queen and the darkness behind him seemed tomove “Be careful of your words”

“We didn’t take your daughter,” Luka said, getting us back on track

“I traced her energy to your land, and she’s still !” Genevieve cried “This is an act of war if—”

“Jocelyn isn’t ,” Alek interrupted

“What?” Genevieve’s eyes flew i she’s with you?” The blood rushed from her face

Gotcha My fingernails bit into

“I’ that you have my condolences,” Alek repeated his earlier statement

“You said that before,” Genevieve snapped “What the hell do you mean?”

“I ested—on the border between your land and the lycans’,” Alek answered

“You…” She snarled in ust “You found her”

I nodded “When I carave for her to survive”

Luna whimpered

Genevieve gasped, and I nearly applauded

“She’s dead?” Her voice echoed in the chamber “My Jocelyn is dead?”

I’d never told a lie in all the centuries of ue as I searched for the words that would ring with truth while skirting the lie “When I found her, she had broken ribs and too many lacerations to count, but it was the break to her sternu that were iical healer” Themy mate—the fe I had not to storm across the chamber and snap Genevieve’s neck

“Goddess, you’re wearing ato the crimson band around my arm

“I am,” I answered

“She returned to the ether?” Genevieve asked,in her eyes