My sweet friend beamed at me as she took back her phone. I started to thank my lucky stars that Cat and I were thrown together but decided it might be more appropriate to thank my Faery godfather instead. Ever since I’d been told about the oracle forecasting my arrival, I’d wondered if Merlin had been involved. All he would have needed to do was provide the oracle with a vision to kick-start my return to Ireland. It made sense, especially if he was as powerful and crafty as Lochlan seemed to think. If that was the case, he would have known I’d been planted smack in the middle of a Druid stronghold. He might not have been physically present since I’d arrived, but his influence was everywhere. I shouldn’t have been surprised. If he had the foresight to give me the necklace twenty years ago,

