“You’re back a lot faster than I expected,” Trinity said, coming into the bedroom Nix had found for me in the palace.
I was in bed, but I’d barely slept. The early morning light came through the large window, the pale blue curtains softening it even more. This room was smaller than the one I’d shared with Thor, but no less sumptuous, somewhere on the second floor of the palace.
I had yet to come through the main entrance, being snuck in, once again, through the secret passages. I was still a secret. And now, between realities.
After the insanity of the night before, Nix and I decided we’d keep my existence quiet until we had time to think. While I’d been mated to Thor—no question it had been more than just fucking—that information had only been shared with his parents outside of the palace.
And they were dead.
My mating was a secret, my status as princess was a secret.
I didn’t exist on Alera.
I felt like a ghost. As if I were lost, adrift. Alone.
“Yeah, well, it seems rooting out the traitor was easier than I thought,” I replied drily. I tucked the blanket up higher about my ears.
Trinity came over from the doorway and sat on the edge of the bed. Her hair was up in a sloppy bun and she had on what looked like an Aleran version of sweats. Gray, loose pants and a hoodie sweatshirt without the front kangaroo pocket. It looked comfortable, but not very attractive. Almost like prison garb. Clearly, she hadn’t grasped the power of the S-Gen machine. But she was the reigning princess, so her time was probably best used elsewhere—doing royal stuff.
Whatever that meant.
I, however, had all the time in the world. I could be her personal S-Gen machine dress designer. Groaning, I pulled the blanket all the way up and over my head.
An instant later, it was tugged down.
“Nix gave me an update and I wanted to kill both of you. Why didn’t you call me?”
“Because having the princess and her mate—no way Leo’d let you go to a murder/suicide by yourself—arrive at the Jax home late at night would have been impossible to keep quiet.”
“I thought Desti
