He shook his head. “He’s not here.”

A new pain tangled in my chest. I took a small step back, as if I could escape what he would tell me next.

“The wedding has been moved to Theo’s ship.” He spoke in starts and stops, like it took effort to form the words. “After that battle, after you went missing, Theo snapped… He altered all the wedding contracts. They set off for the docks a couple hours ago. They’re headed to Obelia so Halla can have a proper wedding celebration with her own people.”

I had to play the words over again in my head, had to fight to keep my stumbling heart intact. I needed Halla. I needed to get to Agatha. And foolish and dangerous as it was, I couldn’t snuff out the insatiable want I felt for Theo.

For a long moment, our gazes held. I could nearly feel the charged air between us slowly transmute our sorrow and terror into an unmapped, awful idea.

“Lachlan.” Despite how it ratcheted my hideous pain, I forced in a deep breath. I clung to the table’s edges to keep myself still. “We need to get to that ship.”

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