"And if something is off about her? What then Syn?" Adrian asked narrowing his eyes, "If you take out the Light Heir, you'll start a war."
I let the air from my lungs out slowly as my head bobbed in agreement, "Yes Adrian, but what if she is part of this? Ristan said to get close to her and take a look, what if she's not the Light Heir, what if she's something else?"
Adam sat up and swore, "That would be stupid crazy and how would Ryder not be able to see it?"
"Not sure without being able to bounce this off the Guild, but I think there are spells that could fool the Fae—if she had a powerful enough Mage working with her, or a Witch. It's not easily done, but it isn't impossible either."
"If they're able to conceal it from Ryder, how the hell will you be able to see through it?" Adrian asked swinging his legs over to sit beside me.
"Because I've something he doesn't, I have a coven who can push enough magic inside of me to see the truth, but to do that…I'm going to have to light up, which means we're going to need a huge distraction," I mumbled.
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I'd barely managed to sleep, I kept dreaming of Ryder finding us and throwing us in those cells he had in his basement. I could feel his eyes on me as if he was standing right in front of me inside the crappy warehouse. As if he'd seeped inside and was watching me from within a dream. My dream.
I'd managed a sponge bath with water Adam and Larissa had brought back with them, along with some extra clothes for today. Adrian had gone back to Vlad, since his absence would be noticed. We had rounded up enough people to create a small flash mob, but I wasn’t positive they'd be enough to draw the Fae away from Arianna, but I only need a few seconds to see whatever it was Ristan wanted me to.
There was also this restlessness inside of me, as if something was fighting to get out. I'd stared in the mirror for an entire hour trying to figure out what the hell was in my eyes that Ryder had been talking about…they didn’t change once. And yet something inside was changing, I could feel it twisting and turning as it fought to come to the surface.
Ryder said I was Fae, but that was impossible wasn’t it? Wouldn’t I have known if I was? Could I have been what the Fae were looking for when they killed my parents? I had too many questions and no answers. I closed my eyes and groaned, the sun wasn’t even up yet and I already had a million problems to solve.
I must have fallen back to sleep, because when I opened my eyes this time, I was back in the small house inside Faery and Ryder was lying beside me playing with a lock of my hair between his fingers.
"You shouldn’t have left me Syn, I have to punish you now," he whispered.
"You say that an awful lot Ryder. I have to stop this, before more innocent lives are lost," I replied back to dream Ryder.
He smirked and dropped my hair from between his fingers and placed his hand on my face softly. "And if your people attacked mine Synthia? What then?"
"Then we become enemies and I fight against you," I whispered breathlessly.
He laughed, but it was a cold and emotionless sound, "You would lose," he moved over me as he said it, pinning my hands softly in one of his hands, above my head. "I miss being buried in your warmth Syn, I need to fuck you."
I smiled and shook my head. "Not unless you release me from the contract," I uttered breathlessly as his mouth moved dangerously close to mine.
"I don’t think so, you still wear my mark around your neck Syn, I like how it looks on you," his eyes sparkled with amusement.
"Go away Ryder," I growled, but he closed the distance and silenced my mouth with his, his kiss was soft but carried an urgency I matched as the kiss deepened. Moaning against him probably wasn’t the best response since I wasn’t supposed to want his kiss, but it was all I had— until the bed shook violently.
I watched him pull away and smile coldly, "I'll find you and when I do Syn, I won't be gentle. And I’m going to find you. I always find my prey Pet." And then he was gone and Adam was above me, shaking me.
I sat up looking at him in bewilderment. I swallowed and shook off the dream I'd been indulging in. "What happened?"
"You were having a nightmare," he said in way of explanation. Of course he would think it was a nightmare, I had them a lot growing up. He'd always make me wake up, even when Larissa hadn't been able to.
"I'm okay, what time is it?" I asked looking up through the broken window that sat high up on the wall of the warehouse.
"It's 6 a.m. Time to shine, this was on the door when I went for coffee," Adam said handing me a quickly scrawled note.
"Arianna will be outside the courthouse, what the hell would she be doing at the courthouse?" I asked more to myself but Adam answered anyways.