SAGE

I bit back a curse the moment Makeh released whatever spell had sealed my lips.

The words burned at the back of my throat, hot and vicious, but I swallowed them down before they could escape and wake Adam. He shifted slightly behind me, still deep in sleep, blissfully unaware that a being had been standing by our window moments ago.

My thoughts, however, were another matter entirely. What in the goddess' blazing—

Makeh's shoulders shook with silent laughter.

Of course she could hear that.

And what is so funny?!

I glared at her as carefully and murderously as one could glare at an entity before dawn. Slowly, I...