LUCY
The mate bond. It has to be the mate bond.
And yet — how can he sense my feelings when our souls haven't been officially joined? Is it a perk of his royal blood? A byproduct of whatever I am becoming?
I file the question away and make the decision in the same breath: I have to collaborate with his story as though we rehearsed it. The alternative is a second explosion in a room that hasn't recovered from the first.
"That so?" The Supreme speaks at last, his voice traveling as though through water, heavy with the shock he is still working through.
He knows Tavric isn't lying. He knows none of us are.
I find myself wondering what is moving through his mind right now. Does he want to eliminate me quietly and preserve the status quo? Or is he already calculating how to move against the hunters?
