SHADOW

I stepped out of the bathroom in a towel and found Califf sitting in the corner with his phone.

“Why are you still here?”

“I’m coming to Italy with you.”

“Don’t trust me much?”

He lifted his gaze from the screen of his phone and swallowed to see me still in the towel. “I trust you, but I wanna be involved with your plan. I want to help. Until now, our tracks of finding Elder Aciano just went cold, and his mate loses her mind whenever she hears nothing but bad news from Duke.”

“Yeah.” I felt terrible, but my abilities were not like they used to be, making...