“I have family here,” he replies, and it melts my heart a little. He considers us family. “And the food is good when the moody one doesn’t hide it with bombs.”
“Bombs?” I echo, raising an eyebrow.
He nods before disappearing and coming back in seconds with the diamond object I’ve wanted since seeing it Paris. The one Caspian had.
“Put that down!” Dove shouts, rushing over and carefully taking it off Knight. “You’d blow this entire building up if you dropped it.”
“I had no idea that was a bomb,” I whisper, biting my lip. “No wonder Caspian looks so scared when I threw it in the air like a ball.”
Dove turns on me with wide eyes and gently places the diamond bomb on the table. “You are scary to hang out with, you know that?”
“Apparently so,” I mutter and glance at Knight. “Any other bombs I should know about?”
“Yes. The moody one has three drawers full of bombs, daggers, guns, and various other things. Want to see?”
I shake my head, and Dove chuckles, returning to my side.
“I like your pet,” she says.
I glance at Knight and smile softly. “He isn’t a pet. He’s family.”
“What does Caspian think of your family?” she questions, and I grimace.
“Nothing good. He woke up with his pillow on fire every morning this month, thanks to Dragon. He likes to sleep with Caspian and somehow sneaks in every night,” I admit, and she bursts into giggles.
“I should have got Caspian a dragon years ago.”
I rest my head and laugh with her, even as my thoughts wander to Caspian. My gaze strays over to the door. I haven’t seen him in hours, or all day for that matter. Where the hell is he?
Chapter 20
Lilith Thornblood
I pat my arm a few times, putting out the flames that the dragon spit up on me moments ago. My coat is a burnt, but it’s not as bad as the couch. I enter the living room where it sits with a massive burnt patch on it, and Dragon has dug himself a bed in the gap overnight. Caspian is going to be mad if he comes back.
No, when he’s back.
I leave the apartment after feeding Knight and Dragon, heading upstairs. I lift my hand and knock on Dove’s door a few times before it swings open. Standing in the doorway is Dove herself, wrapped in a white towel, her hair dripping water onto the floor.
“Hey, bestie! What’s up?”
My stomach gives a twist again when she calls me her bestie. “Have you seen Caspian this morning or last night?”
She shakes her head. “No, why?”
“He’s been missing since I got back from training with the prince and he was out all night,” I explain, but I smile so she doesn’t see how much I’m freaking out. “I’m sure he just got drunk at a bar but I can’t help but be a worried.”
Truthfully, I am more than a little worried. In fact, I’m outright panicked about the idea that Caspian didn’t come back since late last night or this morning. It isn’t like him to be away this long.
“I last saw Caspian around six yesterday morning, and he said had a mission somewhere in Wales,” she tells me. “I thought you’d be with him, to be honest.”
I shake my head, my response dying on my lips. Why would he go on a mission on his own? My thoughts immediately go to how he seems so mad since I’ve come back from Japan with Alaric, which is unfair on so many levels. He’s made it constantly clear that doesn’t actually like me, let alone want to be with me. I don’t want to play games, and having a bit of happiness isn’t something I should be punished for. What happens between me and Alaric has nothing to do with Caspian, especially not when he will never want me as anything more than a friend.
My hands shake in anger, and I clench them into fists. Fuck this. I’m going to hunt down my wayward partner and have a chat with him.
I ask Dove as much as I can about the hunt Caspian went on, and thankfully she seems to know a lot regarding his location but nothing about what Caspian is hunting. I have to hope he isn’t in trouble since he’s been gone a long time. My training with the prince isn’t until this afternoon, so I have time to kill.
Heading through the courtyard, I go to a portal on the left side of DHT before jumping in with the thought of Wales in mind. I come out to the staircase inside a broken building, which is nothing more than dust and a frame. Not wanting to be here alone for long, I run up the steps and jump through another portal. I come out on a staircase in the middle of a room that nature has taken back. Right in front of me is a stag who instantly freezes when it sees me.
I’m sure it senses what I am before I growl low to warn it off. The stag runs out the door, and I take in a long breath to scent the room. Underneath all the damp floors, moss, and animal scents is Caspian’s. The mixture of demon and wolf, and how unique he smells, isn’t hard to miss. The day has come for a shift. Finally. It might be risky, but I need my wolf to find Caspian or it will take me all day.
“Your turn, girl,” I say to myself. I feel like part of my soul is finally going to be free. After stripping my clothes off, I pack them into my bag and take a deep breath and I shift. My wolf’s deep-red paws land on the floor, and she lifts her head, letting out a long howl before running out of the building.
We charge through the forest, past
