Page 220 of Night's Fall
I tookAleksei’scall.
“Are you safe?” he barked.
“We’re heading to thePalace.Honey,Antheme?—”
“I’ll meet you there.”
Then he was gone.
“Landing cleared,” the on-dash computer said.
My heart skipping every other beat,Istared at thePalacelooming before us.
And then we landed.
* * *
Due to my beast expanding so much, she felt like she would burst out of my chest,Iknew he was arriving not only because she andIfelt him, but because the room darkened as his flight blocked out the sun.
I jumped off the sofa.
“He’ll be met with clothes, dear, and—”QueenCalisastarted.
ButIwas already racing out.
Down the hall, the stairs.
To the front door.
Out of it.
Allain was there.
As wasAleksei, naked, but tugging on a pair of jeans.
I let him get them up beforeIhit him like a rocket.
He picked me up and carried me into thePalace.
He dropped me on my feet in the entry and started buttoning his jeans.
“What’s happening?”Iasked.
He took a shirt fromAllainand shrugged it on, not meeting my gaze.
Oh gods.
No.
“Aleksei!”Ishouted.
He turned and moved so fast,Ididn’t see him do it, but suddenly my face was in his hands and his face was allIcould see.
“We lostAntheme,” he whispered.
The tears sprung to my eyes.
“Lost, as in…dead?”Iasked.
