“Youspoketo him–”
“What?” Zephyr demanded. “He what?”
She looked at her brother, her eyes shining with tears. Her lip even fucking wobbled.
“He thought I was mom.”
Chapter 20
Wyatt
Rafe and Zephyrprowled back and forth across the café like a couple of panthers. Skye was shivering while Aiden held her. I was left to stand guard at the door. The water from the storm had already begun to recede. The streets weren’t littered with agents like before first term, though, so maybe this storm hadn’t been detected.
After Skye had explained her weird encounter with the Crusader, Aiden had hugged her while Zephyr ranted. He’d grabbed a barstool and lifted it above his head for two seconds before huffing and putting it back down.
Rafe decided that was the perfect time to reveal to me that Levi Aria was alive and in the siblings’ basement, and all hell had almost broke loose. Zephyr wanted me to scramble my own brain as well as Rafe’s, and Skye had to step in and tell everyone to shut the fuck up.
“Tell me again, what exactly happened?” Rafe said, looking to me. “Tell me exactly what you saw.”
“I can just show you,” I said, exasperated. Rafe had never held back from my mind before, so this was pissing me off.
“No, you can’t,” Rafe said, shaking his head. “Aiden can’t see if we do that.”
“Come on–”
Rafe cut me off with a growl. “No. There is no you getting into his head, whether via me or otherwise.”
I sighed deeply. This was bullshit, but I supposed it was deserved. I hadn’t even apologized to either Aiden or Skye, yet.
The two were having a silent mind conversation, and then Aiden grinned with his dimples and kissed her nose.
“Oh, myGod. Do you two mind?” Zephyr said with disgust. “We just found out there’s a couple ofterroristson the island and y’all arekissing?”
“He only kissed my nose,” Skye said dryly.
My lips twitched but I managed not to smile. “I knew it was her,” I said, turning back to Rafe.
“And she walked right past you?” Rafe shook his head. “That doesn’t track, Wy. She cursed your whole bloodline. I don’t think she’d just pass you by without a second thought.”
“I’m sorry, what?” Zephyr looked like he wanted to laugh.
“Yeah, I have an idea. Let’s start sharing everything we know,” Aiden said. “Something’s going on here, and we need all the details.”
I scrubbed a hand down his face, glanced at Zephyr, then looked right at Skye before I spoke. “My father defended Regina Wilson during the terror trial. He was her lawyer.”
Skye froze.
She began to shake her head, looking to Aiden for his reaction, then froze again when she saw he didn’t look surprised. She looked to Zephyr next, then blinked several times, her mind seemingly paralyzed.
“Y’all knew?” she asked softly.
I suddenly felt like such an ass.
I’d figured the others would’ve told her about our kitchen conversation from a few days ago, but apparently I’d been wrong. Rafe had been looking for reasons to get back on Skye’s good side, and Aiden was on her good side. So why didn’t anyone tell her?
“I recognized him,” Zephyr said immediately. “He looks just like his dumbfuck dad.”
“It’s true,” I said, not even wanting to argue. “We discussed it the other day. Actually, it was the day I saw her. When you were visiting your parents.”
