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“Thank you for your honesty, but I need some time.” I turn to Jayce and Priscilla. “Can we go home?”

Chapter 26

Priscilla

“Hey, Cill. Is everything okay?” Jamie asks on the other end of the phone.

We’ve been texting and sending memes every day since Willow helped me rescue him from the labyrinth.

Elena even cooks dinner for the four of us once a week. But I’ve never felt the urge to call my brother. Tonight, I press the green button instinctually.

“My birth mother showed up at Twins.”

“I’m on my way.”

“You can’t. I’m back in the labyrinth. Shay went home a little while ago.” I sigh before taking another sip of wine. I’m pretty drunk. Not quite slurring my words drunk, but it must be why I’m calling the man who hated me my whole life.

To save him from the labyrinth, Willow required a sacrifice. Jaime wanted to live more than he wanted his demigod heritage. Once the blood filled with hatred for my people left his veins, it allowed us to finally love one another like siblings should.

“Actually, Cill…”

A smile breaks out across my face. Is he? Are they? “Tell me, Jamie.”

“I promised Elena I’d wait for her.”

“Well, where is she?”

“She’s on duty tonight.”

“Okay, don’t tell me. Just meet me on the pier outside the labyrinth.”

“Already in my truck.”

“Don’t hang up.”

“Where’s Anjal?” he worries.

“We laid down after Shay and Jayce went home. I thought I’d pass out from all the crying—nope.”

“But he did.”

“Yeah, snoring and everything.”

Jamie laughs.

I write Anjal a note and leave it on the counter in case he wakes while I’m gone. I pour the rest of the contents of this bottle into my glass before grabbing a new one.

Jamie and Elena rent a house in Chackbay, so it won’t take him long to arrive. I hurry because I don’t want to make him wait.

“What’s she like?”

“Thinner than me,” drunk brain admits.

“Cill…”

“I know. It’s okay.”

I hang up the phone and slip it in my pocket once I see Jamie with his feet hanging from the pier. He must have sped all the way here.

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