Romano moved fast enough he had to slide to a stop in front of Dominic’s home before bounding up the stairs.
“Alpha!”
There was bellowing and scampering claws. Zoey hollered something about not a good time, but Romano wouldn’t be deterred.
“It’s Kalinda!”
The front door swung open, and Silva got a full view of Dominic’s broad shoulders and bare chest before she caught the tail end of a decidedly naked Zoey ducking through a door.
“What is it?”
“Kalinda has been taken.”
The world turned into a bunch of too-fast questions, calls for Zahara, and Silva finding herself laid out on a chaise in the main living room with Zoey running her fingers through Silva’s hair.
“You’re so burned.”
Zoey’s tearful observation made Silva’s throat thick with sadness. “It was worse, but I was able to heal a bit to get here. Doesn’t hurt as bad as it looks.”
Zoey’s look told Silva she didn’t believe her but she didn’t argue out loud.
“Zahara is on her way.”
Silva forced herself to turn her head and face Romano. He looked how she felt: out of sorts, his hair standing on end, and ready to kill the nearest thing he was directed at.
She could get behind all of that.
“I’m sorry.”
He shook his head. “You’ve never backed down from a fight. If you look like this, it had to be bad. Who took her?”
Silva took a deep breath. This was going to fucking suck. “And Unseelie Fae named Kieran of the Shadow.”
“Come again?”
She explained as best she could about what happened. At the mention of the wolves, Dominic grabbed his phone and dialed quickly.
“It has to be The Renegades. Pasquale should recognize their scent if they are the same ones who killed Heath.”
“Heath’s dead?”
The world was going to fucking shit. And Kalinda was not going to be happy to find out this information.
“We believe so, and there were wolves involved. If these are the same wolves, this is personal. They are attacking the pack.”
“I think I may be the reason.”
Dominic stated at her. “Explain.”
“The Unseelie and Seelie have never seen eye to eye. They are the dark Fae, for lack of a better word, always prone to cruelty and destruction. I can’t ignore this is happening after I came into my power, or the fact he wants me to go there alone to get Kalinda.”
“All this to take you out?”
Silva shrugged … and hissed. That hurt. “I’m not just a Fae, remember? It could be more to do with my ruling House. But I can’t be sure. Nothing is certain with the Unseelie. It could be on a fucking whim, and you all just got away.”
“Some whim.”
“Court intrigue where I’m from is deadly.”
