Book 19: What Must Be Done

Oakley

Ian’s hand is possessively locked around mine while an entirely new world comes into startling focus. 

The cave floor has a gentle slope that we follow, with Juliette and Lord Fraser leading the way. Wren and Fennec are close behind, both of them utterly beside themselves over Juliette’s safety, but she doesn’t seem upset at all. 

In fact, she’s smiling up at the exceedingly handsome Fraser with so much light and excitement behind her eyes that I feel oddly at ease about our strange situation. 

Still, we’re being led by nothing but two oil lanterns and a whim. Just when the shadows feel like they’ll swallow us whole, the dry, mountain air shifts, and wet heat rolls toward us, followed by a distant light. 

Naomi, who has been grumbling beside me for the bett