Book 3: Overkill

Hollis

Father and I stride through the campground, on the way to lunch with a few representatives of Lightning Cape. He might be the only person in a mile radius who can think or talk about anything other than Kash’s sudden appearance at the ritual this morning.

I’m certainly not.

I haven’t seen a glimpse of her since she left the ritual following that fucking rogue. Nobody seems to know anything new—well, I bet Eva does, but I haven’t seen her either. The information blackout sets my teeth on edge. One of them should’ve told me something by now. A huge event is happening in my mate’s life, and—

“You are distracted,” Father grunts.

“No,” I lie immediately.

“What did I say?” He raises one bushy eyebrow.

I scrub through my memory for what he was talking about. Fuck, for anything he’s ever said about Lightning Cape.

“That the wind powers of their royal family are a strong military match for our snow powers, so we’d figh