Page 22 of Fortune Fae Academy

I flinched as concern wound through me. How had I forgotten?

My beautiful Beta. Zeke, the one who had sacrificed his Sight for me and killed an Elder on my behalf.

I’d just… forgotten him.

Turning around in my ethereal dress of silver threads, I remembered that I had brought him here to show him this wonder. To share it with him. But something… someone… had yanked him away.

My chest pinched as I touched the threads to the past and heard his cry of pain.

What’s wrong with me?

How could I forget he was in trouble?

He needed me. Yet, I was here, marveling at forgotten pieces of the universe and having no one to share them with.

Not to mention I had been here for hours. The passage of time in my threads was unmistakable.

A sharp grip around my ankle brought me back to the present, to my body still in the cell with two Alphas.

“Don’t wander too far, Omega,” Seifiek warned.

His voice sounded tired, as if it had drained him for me to explore this new side of the Web for so long.

Heat ran up my leg at his touch, even though with the amount of Dust coursing through me, I should have been as cold as ice.

But Iburned.

I slipped my fingers through his silver hair and softly scratched along his scalp. A low rumbling purr rewarded me for the action.

Axel ran his fingers up my thigh, determined not to be forgotten. He nuzzled against my skin and kissed me. The touch was reminiscent of a Beta’s gentleness, but his fangs grazed my skin with sharp danger.

He made such a unique Alpha.

His bright blue eyes gazed up at me with awe and reverence. I walked the Web, seeing everything and all of time all at once in its glory—yet I was still grounded.

Still here with my Alphas.

Not insane like Etu.

Not trapped, butfree.

“Tunnel us home, Gina,” Axel instructed.

I knew what my Alpha wanted.

Now that I had tapped into my true power, there was no need for us to stay here. Amell couldn’t keep us under his thumb.

But there was one slight problem.

Where washome?

Very few placeshad ever felt like home. Perhaps the closest I could come to it was a space I had felt safe.

There weren’t many of those, either.

But my instincts brought one quiet spot to mind. We couldn’t stay in the Fortune Fae Realm, where Amell would spy on us, and I certainly didn’t want to return to the Academy or the Nest I had holed up in while hiding in the forest.

The only places that had ever been mine were the few little houses and apartments I’d stayed in while living in the Human Realm.