Claudia snatched the phone from me. “This is why none of the searches came back. We were looking for a five-foot, two-inch, brown-eyed girl.” Claudia flicked her fingers on the screen to zoom in. “This girl looks really tall. How tall is she?”
“She towered over me, but that’s not saying much. I’m as tall as Tessa usually is.”
I wasn’t about to argue with Samantha. She said this was Tessa, then that had to be Tessa. I believed her. No matter what she looked like right now, that was my mate. “I’m on my way.”
“Don’t come alone,” Samantha said the words quickly, like she was worried that I’d hang up before she could finish. “She didn’t know who I was, and you can’t freak. If you do, I can’t hold your wolf. Dude. I don’t want to get
bitten.”
I almost laughed. She’d teased me about that forever ago. “I would never bite you. Promise.”
“You don’t know—” Lucas started to argue that point, but he was wrong.
“Just bring someone,” Samantha said. “This might take some time to figure out. That fey magic is legit thick. No wonder it tried to kill me last time I messed with it.”
“We won’t make that same mistake again. We’ll figure out something else. But she’s alive, and I know where she is. That’s more than I’ve had…” I swallowed down the hope and fear and excitement that was nearly too much to handle. “That’s more than I’ve had in a long time.”
Axel ran down the hall with a bag in his hand.
“I’ll let you know when I’m landing,” I said to Samantha. “Don’t let her out of your sight.”
“I won’t. Promise.” Samantha was quiet for a second. “Dastien?”
“Yeah?”
“You’re getting her back. This is it.”
I closed my eyes. “Thank you.” My voice broke, and I wasn’t sure what else to say or do.
Claudia hung up, and I opened my eyes.
Tessa was in Los Angeles, and I wasn’t there. I had to go. I needed to be on a plane five minutes ago. I needed—
“We’re going with you.” Claudia looked at her mate, who was on his phone, typing quickly.
“I’ve got the plane ready,” Lucas said without looking up. “Let’s go. I’ll drive us to the airport. Michael said he’ll meet us there.”
I wasn’t going to argue with him. Not today.
This was it. We’d found Tessa. I wasn’t sure why Eli had helped us now, and later I’d deal with why he hadn’t done it sooner.
Tessa was alive, and I knew where she was.
Whatever fey magic held her, I would find a way to break it. And I wasn’t going to let her out of my sight until I did.
Chapter Thirteen
TESSA
I wasn’t sure what I’d ordered. That was stupid. I’d pointed at some picture of a special drink and said I’d take that, but I wasn’t really paying attention. I hoped it wasn’t gross.
It was probably going to be gross.
Damn it.
The noise in the coffee shop was abrasively loud, and the guy behind me had been grumbling for me to hurry up, and I was still flustered from that girl.
It was stupid not to order something I actually wanted. Stupid to let myself get so flustered that I couldn’t think. I hated it when I did something stupid like that.