When I woke the next morning Lucas was already gone. He left a note on his pillow telling me he was going to go find the others and more or less give them a piece of his mind for avoiding me. I laughed at that. I could see Lucas's face red with anger as he screamed at them. I just shook my head and went to shower, fully expecting a room full of men by the time I got out. Which is why I took my clothes with me. I did not want my fae guardians seeing me in a towel.
However I was wrong. When I walked out of the bathroom a startled scream forced itself from my throat, the darkness bursting around me in response. I could feel the shadows lingering just below me in my shadow that was cast on the floor. Though something about the man before me told me, even I was no match for him.
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