Chapter Twenty-Five Griffin
Fire.
It shouldn’t have soothed Griffin’s nerves, but it did. He continued to stare at the place where Lochlan’s portal took his mother and the book to the human realm before closing her off from them forever.
A sob echoed behind him, and he turned to find Riona staring up at the flames bursting from the palace windows. Brea’s magic kept the flames from reaching the slums until Hector evacuated every last fae, but it seemed she hadn’t wanted to wait to begin.
Another sob escaped the always strong Riona, the woman who never shed a tear, who fought her sort-of father with a coldness that left them all chilled.
“I’m going to help Brea.” Lochlan walked away, leaving Griffin to stare at Riona and Gulliver.
It was over.
Egan was dead.
He pulled Riona against h
