“Max?” I growled, unable to stop it.
“He’s alive. Tombs stabbed him, wanted to make you go all crazy alpha and protect him.”
I remembered the voice whispering to me.
“Where is he?”
Max grimaced, and Sasha rolled her eyes.
“He’s in with Talis,” she offered with a nonchalant shrug, as if that sentence made perfect sense.
“Talis?”
“Yeah, they got him with that stupid fucking fae poison too.” Sasha bared her teeth, hands fisted at her side. “I never want to see the pair of you like that again.” She shuddered, and guilt hit me hard.
“I’m sorry.”
Her expression hardened. “What are you sorry for? Did you inject yourself with it?”
“No, but you’ve had to deal with everything on your own.” Pain pulsed in my temple, and I winced, rubbing at it.
“Lady Sarhin said you’ll probably get headaches for a few days after you wake up,” Sasha said, relaxing against the doorframe. “And I’m more than capable of handling things while you two recover. I have the rest of the pack to back me up.”
She was right.
I rubbed at my head again. “I know, sorry.”
I didn’t need to see her eye-roll this time; I felt it. Forestalling another telling off, I said, “Is Talis awake?” I didn’t remember him being there. “And why is Axel with him? Didn’t he want to go home?”
I might not remember much about what happened with Tombs, but I definitely remembered the tension between Axel and Talis. Couldn’t imagine either of them willingly sharing a room, let alone Talis’s bedroom. Unless…
“Are they together?”
“Not in the way you mean.” Max answered this time. He sighed, and I’d really had enough of trying to pull information out of the pair of them.
My head hurt and I wanted to curl up next to Gabriel and go back to sleep. “Just tell me. Please.”
“While you were busy killing Tombs, Talis had me pinned in the corner because I tried to help Axel.”
I winced, not sure which part of that sentence to focus on. I waved for him to carry on instead.
“Talisguardedhim. I’m pretty sure he’d have done some serious damage to me if Axel hadn’t stopped him.” He waved out the door in the direction of Talis’s bedroom. “When we took you all out of Gabriel’s house, Talis got agitated when we separated him and Axel. In the state he was in, it was easier for everyone if we let them recover together.”
I stared at him, questions forming in my mind that I really didn’t want to examine too closely. At least not with the headache forming in my temples. “I killed Tombs?” I asked instead.
Max nodded. “Yep. Tore his throat out.”
I should’ve probably felt at least a little guilt at ending someone’s life. But I didn’t.
I felt nothing but relief that the man who’d hurt Gabriel so badly no longer got to breathe the same air as him.
If I was honest, I felt a grim kind of satisfaction that I’d been the one to end him. My eyelids were getting heavier, and my need to know what I missed got less and less with every blink.
“Is everything okay, now?” I asked, hoping they got the message that I needed them to wrap things up.
“Yeah,” Max said softly. “Blake and Callum are awake, all the Blue Alhuirn they found has been sent back through the gateway to be destroyed, and your pack is safe.”
There were other things I knew I should be asking about, but that would do for now.
