Which is when it all comes back to me, and I sit bolt upright.
“Dante!”
“Hey.” Scarlett is sitting next to me on one side. “Don’t move around too much. You’ve been out for a long time.”
I grab at her, but I’m super weak. “How long?”
“Three days.”
“I’m on Vorostor?”
“Yes.”
“In whose sector?” I finally manage to catch hold of her clothing, but Scarlett easily removes it, and putting her hand on me, she pushes me back down on the bed.
“Dante’s.”
A chill runs through me. There’s no way Dexx would let Scarlett come to Dante’s sector if he was here.
“I need to be with him.” I shove myself into a sitting position.
“You can’t.”
“I’ll take a ship. I’ll go after him, whatever needs to be done,” I growl.
“He’s in the clan chamber with the other warlords.” Scarlett sighs. “They’re debating what to do, since he lost half his crew.”
“He didn’t lose them, they were taken.”
“That’s not what Driok is saying.”
“He wasn’t there! I was.”
Scarlett looks over her shoulder, and I see Kerra come through the door, along with a gaggle of sarkarnlings.
Della pushes past her and runs as fast as she can before landing on me, arms around my neck.
“There areSarkarnii childrenhere,” Kerra says, her hand over her stomach.
“How?” Scarlett asks.
“It’s a long story,” I say as I cradle Della and the rest surround my bed quietly.
I do not like their silence.
“Someone needs to tell the warlords Dante’s crew was taken. It was a trap.”
Kerra shakes her head. “I don’t think that will help.”
“Dante has done as Dalox asked. We’ve been together for a month. We’re mates, and I want to be with him. The warlords have to help him get his crew back.”
Kerra looks at Scarlett. “I don’t know how possible it’s going to be, Rosie,” she says quietly. “They think he did this on purpose. He was completely feral when he returned.”
“I know. It’s part of his mutation. Ask any of his crew,” I say, attempting to keep my voice low and even, not wanting to scare the little sarkarnlings around me.
“Dante should have someone speak for him,” Scarlett says to Kerra.
“Get Dart. He’s the warrior who is his second in command. He can tell them.”
