Evgeniya The plummet back to reality had to come around eventually. Neither of the three of us could hide away forever in our bubble in the mountains. I was eager to return to see my father, to make sure he was doing ok, but I was dreading it in case anything had happened to him and he was keeping tight-lipped. ‘I'm fairly certain that if he and the Alpha had another smackdown, wingus and dingus here would have been mind-linked,’ Evva pointed out. ‘I guess…’ I mumbled, not terribly convinced. “You ok back there?” Astennu turned in his seat from the front passenger. “You’ve got that deep thought crinkle going on across your forehead.” Badru had jumped at the chance to drive. It gave him the sense that he was taking care of me and it meant his hands were busy elsewhere to perform their

