Chapter 161

“I thought you’d be gone by now,” Leonard said.

Gavriel’s tawny eyes flickered. “The twins and Vaughan left an hour ago, and Lorcan left at dawn. He said to tell you good-bye.”

Leonard nodded in a way that made it very clear he knew Lorcan had done no such thing. “What do you want?”

She wasn’t quite sure they had the same definition of friend that she did. But Gavriel looked at her from head to toe and back up again, then at Leonard , and said, “Be careful when you face Maeve. We’ll have given our reports by then.”

Leonard ’s stormy expression didn’t improve. “Travel swiftly,” he said, and kept walking.

Matilda lingered, studying the Fae Mob , the glimmer of sadness in his golden eyes. Like Leonard , he was enslaved to Maeve—and yet he thought to warn them. With the blood oath, Maeve could order him to divulge every detail, including this moment. And punish him for it. But for his friend …

“Thank you,” she said to the golden-haired Mob . He blinked, and Leonard froze. Her arms ach