LILY'S POV
"They're here."
I was helping Mara stack plates in the kitchen when Jace appeared in the doorway. Mara didn't look up. Just pointed at the window with the particular authority of someone who had decided that whatever was happening outside could wait until the plates were stacked.
I looked at Mason.
He was already moving toward the door.
"Finish the plates," Mara said.
"Mara," I said.
"The plates will take forty seconds. Your friends will still be there in forty seconds." She handed me a stack. "And if they're not then we have bigger problems than plates."
I stacked the plates.
It took thirty eight seconds.
Then I went outside.
Harper's car was in the courtyard. The same dent on the rear passenger door. Both front doors already open and Owen climbing out with the parti
