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Ivy’s face blushed as red as her hair. “Well, I guess Drake and I just needed time. But it was worth the wait.”

“I’m glad you and Drake are happy, Ivy, but you two could have been happy here.” I brushed away an imaginary tear.

“Drake is now a Dragon of Storm Castle. That job cannot be done from anywhere else on Earth,” Nero pointed out.

“Yes, thank you, Mr. Sensible,” I replied.

Nero’s brows lifted. He must have known that I was annoyed with him because he hadn’t taken me up on my offer of a steamy rendezvous in my office.

“Hey, Alec,” Ivy said.

Alec Morrows, my new head of security, had stopped beside our table. “General Windstriker. Colonel Sunstorm.” He nodded to Nero and Harker in turn. Then he bowed to me. “Boss.” He winked at Ivy. “Doctor Happy.”

Doctor Happy. That was the perfect nickname for Ivy.

“I must say I am very disappointed, Ivy, to hear you’re now off the market. And dating my buddy Drake no less.” Alec grinned at her.

Ivy grinned back.

“So, Alec, I guess you want to make a report or something,” I said casually.

Nero’s eyes widened, clearly horrified by my very fancy, very soldierly words. They were words totally befitting of an angel.

“No wonder Nyx is sending you to remedial angel academy,” Harker laughed.

I stuck my hand over his mouth and hissed between my teeth, “Do you think you could shout it out any louder, Harker? Honestly! I have a reputation to maintain.”

Harker swatted my hand away. “I’m confused, Leda. I thought your special angel training is all about building up a new reputation.” His eyes twinkled.

I rolled my eyes at him. “Haha. Very funny.”

Alec sat down next to me. “Should I proceed with my report?”

I waved for him to continue.

“While you were, ahem, away on business last night, Nyx arrived here,” Alec said. “General Windstriker met with her in your office and attempted to convince her that you were not indeed off on a fool’s errand.”

Alec spoke with a perfectly straight face, so unlike his usual, jovial manner. He must have been particularly amused right now.

“Out of curiosity, what did you tell Nyx?” Harker asked Nero.

“I told her Leda was visiting her family.”

“Which is true,” I said. “I was with Gin and Tessa.”

Thankfully, Gin was recovering well from being, well, dead. Thank goodness she was a phoenix. I shouldn’t have put her and Tessa in such danger in the first place. Calli thought so too. She’d called me up and told me off for at least an hour after my sisters had returned home. I’d felt like I was twelve years old again, not a powerful angel. Funnily enough, Calli hadn’t seemed irked that I’d brought Gin and Tessa with me to the Lost City; she’d been more upset that I hadn’t brought her along to look out for all of us. Like Nyx, Calli seemed to think I was made of glass now that I was pregnant.

“But then Faris and Grace showed up too,” I said. “Uninvited, of course.”

“But in the end, you got Zane back,” said Harker.

“You’ve been talking to Bella.”

After telling me off for an hour for putting myself and my sisters in danger, Calli had spent the next hour praising me for finding my brother. Then she’d called Bella and told her the good news.

“Yes. Bella told me last night.” Harker couldn’t hide his smile, the smitten kitten.

Oh, yes. The two of them had been spending a lot of time together lately.