Page 6 of Cursed Heirs

He looked absolutely sick with it. “This is disgusting. Tell me you recognize that from him?”

“It’s just coming across that way. It’s not that bad.”

“Shit, Ore. That response is really fucking worrying.”

“You know what’s worrying me? Things that actually matter. Not this bullshit. Things like Constantine now fucking free and coming at us.”

“He’s been pushed back.”

“No thanks to me. I should’ve been ready, should’ve been better.”

“It was a bitch sneak attack, Ore.”

“Even so,” I muttered. “We should’ve been able to respond better than that.”

“Are you kidding? What you did… it was another level.” His eyes lit up with pride and a whole lot of arousal too. “You held your own against Constantine Vale!”

“Talon,” I groused.

“No. You need to accept what a major deal that is. Only a handful of beings in the whole of the supernatural world have ever done that.”

It hit me then.

Through all of the intensity with Cornwell and him, the confusion, and trying to get my bearings, I hadn’t thought of it sooner.

And I should have.

Fuck.

Alena was one of those few beings.

“Where is she? Where’s Xavier?”

“Abigail showed up just after Constantine teleported out with his minions. She took Alena with her, along with Xavier. I came to as she was about to head out and I saw X was hurt. She wouldn’t tell me what it was. I’m not sure if she even knew, but she said she was gonna have him seen to by one of her top Healers. I asked about Elliot Sabre and apparently he was hurt really badly too trying to stop the acolytes from freeing Constantine. Probably why she took X instead of sending one of her Healers here, so he could see his dad.”

“Motherfuck,” I uttered, scrubbing my hand over my face.

“I know,” he said, grimacing, his pain as acute as mine that Xavier was hurt. Not knowing how or what it was just made it all the worse.

“And Alena? Why didn’t Abigail let her stay here?”

“We didn’t get into that. She was already short with me and stressed out about Constantine being back. The only reason she told me the rest was because I told her she owed me one for my parents. If I had to guess, though, I’d say she took Alena because she unleashed a mass amount of power. Probably calls for a big-time mother-daughter convo.”

“Was there a timeframe?”

“No, sorry.”

I cursed under my breath.

“I’m sorry, Ore. It was the best intel I could get out of her.”

“It’s not your fault. You got a good amount.”

“Yeah, at least we know they’re both safe.”

“We need to go to them.”

“What?”

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