Chapter 22. I Can’t Lose You

Verona looked at the folder her spies had given her. Inside were some black and white pictures of the girl. She had been deep in thought ever since she received this folder.

A seer had foretold that the future of mankind depended on the hands of a girl born to the fairy kingdom. That was why she kidnapped the girl when she was just days old. She kept the girl with her son’s family. They managed to keep the girl away from her home. Lucy, her daughter-in-law, had kept the girl from doing anything that would jeopardize their plan. It had been going very well.

But someone else had been after the girl as well. Not her mate; Lucy had made sure the creature claiming to be her mate stayed far away from her. No, this was someone else. They had killed her son and his wife, but before they could get their hands on the girl, that meddling Jimmy had sent the girl to Elijah’s house. Now, she was once again back with her mate.

Years of planning on her part had been wasted just li