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Right before he mentioned Ashlyn.

I shook my head. “Stop distracting me,” I told him, causing his lips to curl down like mine had moments before.

“I was explaining why I put you first, or rather, that I’ve always put you first. I?—”

“No, I got that. I…” I closed my eyes for a moment, then opened them again. “Ashlyn’s missing.”

“Yes, I know.”

“She wouldn’t run away.”

His mouth curved downward even more. “Okay.”

“No, I mean, I heard Quinn thinking about it, and I agree with her.” And I was definitely not making any sense right now because I kept changing topics on him.

With another shake of my head, I attempted to clear it.

Something about this was important.

Something about Ashlyn.

“She… she journals,” I mumbled, thinking aloud. “I mean, she writes. And she wrote in my journal on the plane. But she also… she told me about her…” I trailed off, recalling our conversation from our trip to Glacier Sector.

Her words were always so cryptic, like a warning.

“As a Z-Clan Omega, she’s prophetic,” I said slowly. “And she writes her visions down in her journals.” Which meant she should have seen this coming.

Maybe she did,I thought.Maybe that’s why she told me about her journals…

“I have so many notebooks filled with musings back in my nest. But only someone who knows where to look can find my diaries.”

I’d been confused by why she’d felt the need to tell me this, but I was starting to think there might have been a very good reason indeed.

“I hide my journals beneath my nest, under the floorboards. That’s my secret.”

“And you’re telling me this because…?”

“In case you ever need to know something.”

“Is there something I should know?”

“A great many things, I’m sure.”

My eyes widened. “We need to find those journals.”

CHAPTER THIRTY

CILLIAN

Lorcan?I called, engaging my telepathic link to my old friend and not waiting for him to reply.Ivana says someone needs to search Ashlyn’s nest for her journals. They’re under the floorboards.That last part hadn’t been uttered aloud by Ivana, but I’d caught the location floating through her thoughts.

Journals?Lorcan repeated, not elaborating.

Yes. Like a diary. From what she told Ivana, Ashlyn often wrote her visions down in her notebooks.Which meant we might be able to find a clue as to where she was now by perusing her writings.

I had to believe she’d told Ivana for a reason.

And Ivana seemed to think so, too.