Page 23 of When Kings Fall

Levi wrapped his arm around me. “Come. Let’s get you some ice for that eye.”

“Lev—”

“We’ll figure it out, brother. It’s okay. Like you told me, it’ll all be okay.”

Things had shifted.

Because of her.

Because of us coming together.

And as antagonistic as they currently were because of certain decisions made, I still actually believed that for the first time in so long that things actually would be okay.

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~Brianna~

They were alive.

The demons were still alive.

“It took so long and everything I had to bring Brianna to me, to draw her close, to get her to trust me. Then with Chloe’s revelation that was jeopardized. Now my actions bringing Royce right to our doors. Not telling her that they’re even alive, yet alone that I was pursuing them this entire time.”

I couldn’t believe it.

It just didn’t compute.

Not yet.

I needed time to get past the numbed stage of it, I figured.

That was how I dealt with shocking news—I went into a numbed state until my brain had the chance to process it.

The thing was, I didn’t have a lot of time. I needed the boys to fill me in on the details of it all as soon as possible, given that an attack had taken place on my apartment that Levi had managed to stave off.

For now.

Those guys, they didn’t stop.

I shuddered. They certainly hadn’t when Levi and I had been in captivity.

Maybe going into this talk with the boys, being numbed to it would be better, a way to take things in at an emotional distance, objectively.

Rationally and with logic and reason leading the way.

I sucked in a sharp breath and blinked back to the moment, to the beauty ahead of me.

Boreas.

That was what the boys called this winter lodge in the mountains.

Their safehouse.

Colt had informed me that it was named after a Greek God of the north wind.

He’d also told me that this was where the three of them had retreated to five years ago after what they’d termed the incident. It was a bit more than an incident, but I got their need not to emphasize that when they discussed it.

It seemed that them never really discussing it, except when it came up in bursts of frustration for Mason was much more of a detriment to all three of them than actually talking it out and recalling what had happened.

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