Page 5 of My Haven
She nodded. “I kinda need to be boots on the ground there to see what’s going on.”
“No, you don’t!” Aiden argued.
Meryn rubbed her temples. “Look, we have about three to four weeks before our kid makes their world debut. It would look sketchy as hell if you visit all the other pillar cities and not Storm Keep. And if you’re going, I’m going.”
Aiden opened his mouth to argue, then shut it. Then beamed. “Our daughter will be here soon.”
She smiled. “Or son,” she added to be contrary.
“I want to go too,” Amelia added.
Darian took her hand. “We can’t go.”
“Why not? I could visit my parents,” she asked.
He winced. "Because I’m the king of the nation that they broke the alliance with. You’re now the Queen of the Fae.”
Amelia paled. “What?”
Meryn poked her big-sister cousin’s arm. “Don’t you remember the coronation? Lots of gold dresses and bowing,” she paused and looked up at Cord. “Killer food though.”
He winked back at her.
Amelia turned to Meryn scowling. “Of course, I remember the coronation. It’s just…”
“You didn’t realize being a queen meant real world shit, like meetings and politics?” Meryn asked. “Cuz, I’ve totally been there.”
“I can’t go back?” Amelia whispered.
Meryn saw another meltdown brewing. “Of course you can, you just gotta wait for me to kill the witchery douchebags. Then Auntie can make new portals, and everything will go back to normal…well… our normal.”
Kendrick chuckled. “Don’t worry crybaby, yourathairwill take care of things, so you can visit your parents.”
Anne swatted at his chest playfully.
Amelia sniffled. “I’m not a crybaby.”
Kendrick was about to answer when his phone beeped, then beeped and then beeped again.
Meryn was about to tease him, when her own phone went off. When she looked down, she froze, it was an SOS. She pulled it out immediately. “Fuck, it’s Law.”
Everyone was staring at her and Kendrick.
Meryn decided calling would be faster.
When the ringing stopped, she simply asked. “What do you need?”
“Information. Gods! I don’t know how far back,” Law said, fear and frustration in his voice.
“You are talking to your Red Queen, there’s nothing I can’t find. Give me a target Deadpool,” she said, using their codenames. She hoped it would ground him. She knew she had done the right thing when he took a deep breath.
“It’s our mother, Meryn. We can’t find her,” he whispered, as if he was afraid to speak the words out loud.
“I need names, last known location, dates of anything. Give me shit to work with.”
“We don’t know,” he said, in a broken voice.
Meryn turned to Darian and the queen. “I’ll need a portal to Storm Keep.” She looked to Pip, Nigel and Neil. “Grab our ‘go’ bags and tech gear.” The boys jumped up and raced from the room. She looked to Noah and Jaxon. “I need you here on standby. I’ll be running a lot of data through you.”
