“You’re right.” I was better. Less prone to pick fights, more likely to listen before I reacted, and more invested in the people around me. While Evie was mostly responsible for the changesin me, I had to credit Rowan as well. He was the reason Evie stood by my side.
I didn’t give a shit what Donovan or any of the other Lords thought about me. “What’s this about? Why target Ben? And why involve Nadia?”
“If you’re expecting a villain monologue, I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint you.”
“Then there’s nothing left to say.”
Donovan held a hand up. “If you kill me in cold blood, you will bring war down upon the Lords.”
If the other Lords turned out like him, maybe it’s time we went to war. “The kill is justified. The Lords have already decided so.”
“And Ethan?” Donovan said, wearing a too satisfied smirk.
“Ethan won’t care if you live or die. I’m sure he’d prefer you in the ground. Just like the rest of us.”
“He didn’t tell the other Lords about me.” A crafty look slid over his face.
“I wonder why.”
When I stepped toward him, Donovan took a step back. “Wait. I have information you’ll want to hear.”
“Then spit it out.” My patience wore thin. Evie had taken off with Ben’s wolves, and the Lord himself had looked close to death. I wanted Donovan out of the picture, so I could track down Nadia and shake some sense into her. Then I needed to find Evie.
Relief filled me the moment I spotted them deciding to take off with Ben. She’d trusted me and trusted herself. This felt like…
I don’t know. I felt like we were winning. With each other. And wasn’t that a big leap from where we were a few short months ago?
Donovan swallowed hard at my expression. My patience was running extremely thin, and I was sick of looking at his sniveling face. “Nadia is looking for something.”
He licked his lips and shifted his eyes to the left.
Donovan wasn’t telling me something.
“You’ve got five seconds to come clean. I’m freezing my fucking balls off and have no interest in continuing this.”
Maybe he was delaying so Nadia could get away…
“She needs it for something.” He shook his head. “Won’t tell me what it is, but Gianna had it on her when she died, and it’s making her fucking crazy she can’t find the body.”
Explained why they were kidnapping the other Lords. “And you decided to go along for the ride, even though you know damn well where Gianna is buried?”
His eyes glittered with greed. “She didn’t need to know that. Not yet, at least. And I wanted to know what it was that she needed so badly.”
“What’s she looking for?”
Donovan licked his lips again. “She won’t tell me.”
I took another step forward, my claws sliding from my fingers.
“I’m serious, Caelan!” He held his hands up. “Whatever it is, it’s big.”
Evie might not have noticed anything when she sent Gianna’s remains to the earth. She would have been focused on only biological material. We needed to look at her property when we got back.
“Tell me why we need you to find it.”
Donovan blinked. For a Lord, sometimes he was a dumbass. “I’m the one who has the in with her! She trusts me!”
I snorted. “You can’t be that stupid. She thinks we’re the ones responsible. Have you thought maybe she trusts you just as much as you trust her?”
