Gage’s voice called from behind her, “I’ll be outside.”
She registered the ramp lowering to the ground only in her thoughts.
Stepping outside the too-warm ship to the brisk, cold wind had the effect that Gage wanted. Sobering. Closing his eyes and removing his beads from his pocket, he asked for the right words to speak to Simone. Squinting into the darkness, he moved a few more steps further away from the ship and asked another question. Jules’s words just before they left the palace on Windmere came back to him. Did he love Skyler? Was it just the Prophecy that made him feel it was so difficult to control his desire to be with her? He knew her well, but understood there was much more to the woman, to the last of the Future Fae. His physical body clamored for his attention, drove him to
