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I grabbed a pair of sweats. “It’s normal for mates. I’m here now, so you need to sleep.”

“Don’t you need to sleep, too?” she asked in a small voice.

“Are you afraid to sleep?” I asked, watching as she avoided my gaze.

Amara glanced down at her lap where her hands rested.

I stepped over and lifted her chin with my fingers. “What is it? Why are you crying?”

Her bottom lip trembled. “I’m seeing him when I close my eyes.”

Heat washed over me. “Your mind is playing tricks on you—,”

“No,” she said desperately. “He is coming to me when I close my eyes. Please don’t leave me here. I’m so tired, but I’m scared he’s going to hurt me.”

I rubbed the pad of my thumb against her bottom lip. “Zerk,” I said loudly, knowing he could hear me.

The bedroom door opened seconds later and he filled the doorway.

“He’s coming to her in her dreams,” I whispered, my throat dry. “She’s afraid to sleep. Can you stop it?”

Zerk nodded. “Come on, Love. We’ll get you set up.” He gestured for her to follow him, and she reluctantly walked over. “I’m sorry.”

She walked passed Zerk before I could ask what for, and disappeared down the hallway. She thought this was her fault?

I didn’t get a chance to ask before a silhouette formed outside of our bedroom window.

The guards standing watch didn’t seem to notice.

At first, I thought it was an apparition, but I knew better.

Evian watched me through the glass with a daring smile on his face. He could see us, hear us, we had to do something to keep them from it.

Then it hit me.

How hadn’t they found Amara here in the kingdom? The medicine Helena gave Amara had to have hidden her, as well. Flipping him off, I watched as he laughed and disappeared.

Stalking down the hallway, I found Sasha sitting on the couch, avoiding my glare. “Listen, I didn’t mean to look at your dick—,”

“Sasha!” Amara yelled from the kitchen table.

“Forget about that,” I said. “Call Toby and tell him to bring Helena now.”

Sasha sat her coffee on the side table, while she grabbed her phone next to her. “Oooo. Can I please stay for this? Are you going to burn her at the stake? Beat her to a pulp, maybe?” She sat up on her knees. “I want her to pay for what she did to Amara.”

“No,” I said. “I’m going to make her tell us what she knows about Amara’s abilities.”

Chapter Thirty-Three

Amara

Don’t shut your eyes.

Keep them open.

The heaviness of my eyelids weighed me down and it took all my strength to keep them open. I’d been running from my mind all night. When I tried to sleep, I saw him. When I closed my eyes in the shower, he was there.

Then he began to bang on the inside of my head, spilling words into my mind and demanding I come to him. It was the scariest thing I’d ever encountered. Scarier than seeing him in person, because it meant he could reach me now without being there with me.

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