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If Luna was truly here, at least she’d get to say goodbye Agony ripped throughrealization that there was truly nothing I could do for my mate We would both be dead soon

“That’s a question I fully intend to ask her” Alek strode to the door “Lachlan Valor Sit with Jocelyn Benedict?”

The highlander and his rim

Leaving Jocelyn for any amount of time felt like a betrayal, but she would want to see her sister one last time

“Okay,” I conceded, nodding at

We wended, slicing through the night air, folding space, and appeared on the road to the manor, just inside the barrier that supposedly protected us fro

Luna stood next to a white MINI Cooper, wringing her hands

She had Jocelyn’s delicate bone structure, and the sath shone out of her eyes, but that’s where the similarities ended Luna’s hair was pale, but not quite as white as her mother’s had been, and she lacked the shades of purple that defined Jocelyn’s features

“She’s alone,” Ranso at the barrier with his arms folded

“As the new queen of the witches, alone is so she should never be,” I muttered

“Agreed” Alek and I walked through the barrier simultaneously

“Oh, thank Goddess” Luna heaved a sigh of relief “She’s here, isn’t she?”

“How did you find us?” Alek asked

“Why the hell don’t you have security?” I followed up Jocelyn would be furious if she knew her sister was being so careless with her safety She won’t have either of us to look after her once the sun rises

Luna’s gaze flickered between us, settling on me, first Odd, because Alek usually commanded the room, but Luna and I werefamily “Because I assumed you wouldn’t want any other witches to knohere the vampire royal residence is” Then she shifted her focus to Alek “There is a great source of power eed to construct here Jocelyn’s poas substantial, overwhelhter than even my mother’s, and since her body was found earlier on the battlefield, that leaves aze back to ht depths “That ed to absorb iven that there were two puncture wounds on ood idea of how she did it” She tilted her head at me

“She wanted to tell you,” I said softly, parts of ness as the bond between Jocelyn and I gave way thread by thread “But she needed the element of surprise in order to take down yourwith the Sons to overthrow Conclave”