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“Huh.” Cullen came forward and took his hand. “Okay, try it with me.”

They walked through the door hand in hand, and he stood outside in the cooler air, right next to Yarrow.

“Whoa.” He stared at Cullen.

“Hmmm. You haven’t left the house without one of us since you moved in, have you?”

“No.” His heart started to pound as panic tried to set in.

Cullen squeezed his hand. “Well, let’s go see the spring house.”

“Did you know that you’re trailing flowers along behind you?” Yarrow asked.

“That means I’m stressed a little.” Cullen laughed.

“He’s preggers.”

“Congratulations!” Yarrow didn’t even pause.

“Thanks.”

They walked Yarrow to the spring house, and he pried open the door. Yarrow gasped as he walked in. “Wait, this is a hot spring house! Not cold storage.”

“Yep. They used it like a sauna, I think.” Cullen waved at an old brazier in the corner.

“Oooooh.” Yarrow shifted, his clothes falling around his wee beastie body, and he waddled all over, sniffling and batting his tail on the floor with joy.

“I think he likes it.”

“Me too,” Cullen said.

“So why do you think I can’t leave without one of you?”

“I have no idea.” Cullen sent another raft of flowers out of his hair.

“Hey.” He squeezed Cullen’s hand. “It’s okay.”

“I dunno. Do I want you trapped in the house?”

He winked. “I’m never trapped. I always have my own door with me to somewhere.”

Cullen tilted his head. “Yeah? To where?”

Orion grinned. “The Glade.”

ChapterTwelve

Orion was in so much trouble.

Once they got back to the house, he let Orion know it, too.

“So what’s the Glade? Why haven’t you told me about it? How do you get to it? What’s going on? I can’t believe you kept this from me. You got me pregnant, and you had a doorway, and you didn’t tell me?”

“It didn’t come up.”

Orion was not going to get away with that.

“Oh. Oh, I’m going to get Corbin, possibly Cosmo… Cosmo’s meaner. And Cosmo can see things. He’s a seer, did you know?” He was fairly sure toads were falling from his fingers, but he didn’t care because he wasn’t paying attention because he didn’t particularly care for toads.