MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Forty four.— Before They Come
The corridor was empty.
Three in the morning.
Ironveil sleeping around them.
Mara walked with both men beside her and the bond warm and deep and completely certain between all three of them and tried not to think about what Rhen's message had said.
Enough.
That one word.
Enough of them moving.
Enough to matter.
She pushed it down.
Not yet.
She had one more thing to do before any of it started.
She stopped walking.
Both men stopped beside her.
"I need to show you something," she said quietly.
She took them to the basement.
The records hall was dark and quiet at three in the morning.
She led them down the stairs without a light.
She did not need one.
She knew every step.
At the bottom she turned on the small la
