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You’re welcome,I whispered back.Let me know if you’d like to run again tomorrow.

I didn’t expect her to reply, but a softOkayhummed through her mind.

Okay,I echoed, my lips lifting into a smile. Then I shadowed to Blood Sector to give Cillian another update.

There was still something bothering me about the patrol. We needed to make plans on how to fortify the boundary.

Because while Kyra might be my mate in name only, she was still mine to protect. And protect her, I would.

CHAPTERELEVEN

KYRA

Over A Week Later

My wolf pacedbeneath my skin, irritated by today’s change in routine.

Or perhaps she was pissed because she knew what all of this really meant—an end to our afternoon runs with Lorcan.

Because after today, he would no longer be in the Sanctuary.

The jet rumbled around us as we flew across the Greenland Sea. Or that was what it used to be called when humans ran the world. Now it didn’t really have a name, as these parts were supposedly uninhabitable.

Lorcan sat silently beside me, his focus on the numerous controls and panels before him.

I’d given him the coordinates once we were in the air, trusting him not to share them with anyone other than Cillian and Kieran.

It was strange providing such sensitive information to an Alpha, but if I hadn’t done it, Quinn would have. She trusted Kieran entirely, and as a result, she trusted his Elites, too.

We hadn’t had much of a chance to talk since she’d come out of her heat, mostly because she’d just begun to surface from it a few days ago.

However, she seemed happy. In love, even. So different from the Quinn I knew a century ago.

I would never have thought she’d pick Kieran O’Callaghan as a mate, but at least she’d chosen a powerful Alpha. The magic at the Sanctuary was thriving, thanks to their mating, and I’d never seen Quinn in such good health.

Because Kieran has a healing power,I thought.As does Lorcan.

I didn’t know much about it, just the snippets I’d overheard in Lorcan’s mind. He could feel Kieran’s energy bolstering the barrier, something he often thought about during our afternoon runs.

And I somewhat suspected he might be using that healing energy on my nightmares, as they’d weakened over the last ten days.

Or maybe that was from our post-run naps in the cave.

Because yeah, I hadn’t been able to stop those from happening.

My wolf felt different around Lorcan.Secure. And sleeping by him somehow miraculously cleared my head.

I hadn’t slept this well in over a hundred years.

It scared me and made me that much more relieved that he would no longer be in the Sanctuary after tonight.

Because I could not afford to rely on him. He didn’t want a mate and neither did I. Whatever kinship we’d developed over the last few weeks was temporary at best. We’d work together going forward, but only as required.

Such as now, on this jet.

Except there wasn’t much for us to do. From what I’d gathered, this thing pretty much flew itself.

I drummed my fingers against my jean-clad thigh and stared out at the clouds. It’d been a long time since I flew on a plane. Shadowing sort of made it irrelevant. I could go anywhere I wanted in the world.