He had successfully infiltrated the pocket dimension.
Now, to find the villain controlling it.
Chapter Eighteen: Trey
The Next Morning
The Other Guest Suite
Barely Awake
“Where’s Wilde?” I asked. Delilah and Kit had come to our suite first thing in the morning so everyone could eat breakfast together. But that ‘everyone’ was missing one person.
“Sleeping,” Kit replied, fixing two cups of coffee, filling more than half of one mug with cream.
Delilah’s head rested face down on the table and she muttered into the wood, “I wish I was still sleeping. Why did I have to wake up, but he got to sleep in?”
“Because you’re having breakfast with your family,” Kit said, passing the cup of cream with a dash of coffee to Delilah.
The scent of the fresh brewed coffee roused her enough to lift her head and pull the cup toward herself. She leaned her face in and inhaled deeply, then sighed so heavily that her shoulders drooped with contentment.
“Speaking of family.” I paused to fix a plate for myself, pretending that I wasn’t in a hurry to learn the answer. “What do you know about Wilde’s?”
“Oh, nothing,” Delilah replied breezily, as if it was completely normal not to know anything about your friend—lover’s?—family.
“What’s his last name? Maybe we knowthem.”
Delilah blinked slowly, her eyes still heavy with sleep. “I have no idea. Uncle Rick,” she said, blatantly changing the subject as she turned to my dad. “I’ve been meaning to ask you for a favor.”
“What is it, kitten?”
“I lost my collar, the one you made for me. Could you make me another?”
A soft, indulgent smile touched Dad’s lips. “Ah, so that’s why you haven’t been wearing it. I thought maybe you’d outgrown it.”
“Not yet.” Her eyes sparkled with an unspoken anticipation. “So? Can you make me a new one?”
“I didn’t bring any supplies with me.”
“That’s alright, we’re going shopping soon! I can purchase whatever you need!”
My brow furrowed in confusion. “When did we decide to go shopping?” We’d spent hours discussing potential quests yesterday and debating the merits between fighting an evil mage or slaying a monster. I’d barely paid attention because I’d already decidedmyquest was to break whatever curse had been cast on us, whether it helped the Kingdom Defense Spell or not. Still, I didn’t think anyone had mentioned shopping.
“Oh, umm,” Delilah edged away from the table. “We will talk about it today, probably, I think. Oh, look at the time! I’d better go!” Then she jumped to her feet and scrambled out of the room.
“We’re going to the same meeting!” I called after her.
The only answer I received was the door slamming behind her.
I sighed and got to my feet. “I’ll go wake Wilde.”
“Take a plate with you,” Kit said, pushing Delilah’s mostly untouched food toward me. “Make sure he eats all of it.”
I frowned but accepted the plate. Why had I suddenly become his nanny?
The other guest suite was directly across the hall from ours. I pushed the door open and poked my head in, checking to see if Delilah had returned here first. The sitting room was empty. All the bedroom doors were closed. “Delilah? Wilde?” I called as I entered the suite.
No one answered.
