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would now unleash. Had taught them the
veiled paths, the places Fae preferred to hide.
He’d never considered that would someday
be used against him.
“We take a day,” Lorcan said.
Rowan leveled a cold look at him. “A day
is more than we can spare.”
Aelin was down there. In that city. He
knew it, could feel it. He’d been plunging into
his power for the past two days, readying for
the killing he’d unleash, the flight they’d
make. The strain of holding it back yanked on
him, on any lingering control.
Lorcan said, “We’ll pay for a hasty plan if
we don’t take the time. Your mate will pay,
too.”
His former commander’s control was also
on a knife’s edge. Even Gavriel, calm and
steady, was pacing. All of them had descended
into their power, drawing it up from the very