Derek hurried back through the kelp bed, frantic. He’d been so close—when he’d heard Tad’s slight breath through the soul cage, it seemed as if the past four months had disappeared. His heart, once a dead organ in his chest, began to beat again, and his thoughts whirled out in a wild blur that made him want to laugh out loud for the first time in weeks. A smile pulled at his lips, no matter how he tried to tamp it down. Tad, alive. Within reach, even. All he had to do was convince Kellen to help him rescue his lover—
Kellen.
When Derek caught a glimpse of his old friend among the strands of kelp, he slowed his headlong swim and stopped just out of sight behind a large clump of fronds. Kellen wanted only one thing from him, Derek knew. But he’d give that and so much more for another chanc
