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off.”

β€œWhy not?”

β€œI want a picture of it.”

Austin patted his shirt and pants pockets. β€œI have my phone somewhere. I’ll take one, but did Erik put it there?”

β€œI reckon so,” Tavis said.

Ensley turned her glassy eyes toward Tavis. β€œErik said to take him and Tesoro home.”

Her voice held no emotion or inflection. And Tavis was pretty sure she had no idea where she was or what just happened to her.

He lightly traced the Yggdrasil. The blood had dried, but it was hot to the touch. Tavis brushed her nose, cheek, and chin with the back of his handβ€”all cold next to his skin.

β€œWhat’d he tell you about this mark?”

She put her hand to her forehead. β€œI’m chosen.”

Tavis knew there was more because Erik said the same thing when he drew the mark on Tavis’s forehead a dozen years ago. He didn’t know how many others were marked, and Erik never answered when Tavis asked.

β€œFind his cloak,” Ensley said, slurring her words.

Tavis pushed Ensley’s hair back from her face. β€œHow do you know about his cloak?”

β€œI found a piece of it”—she ran her fingers across her palmβ€”β€œand it healed my blister.”

Tavis knew what Ensley said was true. Something similar happened to him. But his injury wasn’t a blister. It was a cut on his head, and it wouldn’t stop bleeding until he used a scrap from Erik’s cloak.

Where was the cloak now? With JC? If that was true, Erik already knew his death was imminent, and he couldn’t risk the cloak falling into enemy hands.

He signaled to Austin to take Ensley away. Then he knelt beside Arthfael, the horse Ensley named Tesoro, and examined the horse’s mortal wounds. Tavis stroked his long neck, remembering his birth. Erik had been so proud, and he knew the stallion’s destiny would be remarkable. He’d been Ensley’s first line of defense, giving Erik time to get here.

β€œDid you get a telegram from Elliott?” Remy asked.

Tavis went to Erik’s body to help Remy prepare it for the trip home. Tavis looked into Erik’s blue eyesβ€”the same color as his ownβ€”and then solemnly closed them.

β€œThere was a telegram waiting for Ensley,” Tavis said to Remy. β€œJC sent it from Chicago. He also shipped clothes to her. The boxes are waiting at the depot in Medora.”

Tavis crossed Erik’s calloused hands over the gaping chest wounds. It would take Remy hours to sew them up. Hours Tavis didn’t have. The Council members were probably already sensing their chief’s death. He had to leave soon.

β€œSo JC’s okay?”

β€œI don’t know. I got a strange telegram from Elliott. He said he, Meredith, and Emily were taking JC home and that we’re to go to Kentucky to bring Kit and Cullen home with us.”

β€œWhy didn’t they go with Elliott, and why would they take JC home?” Remy’s eyes narrowed, and then he said, β€œUnless…”

Tavis heard what Remy didn’t say. It confirmed what Tavis thought might have happened, and it was like a spike to his heart.

β€œI spent the trip back here thinking about that. And I tried to read between the lines of Elliott’s telegram.”

β€œWhat’d you read?” Remy interrupted again.

Tavis hesitated a moment, unsure if he should tell Remy, and then decided that was stupid. Remy expected and deserved complete honesty from him, and vice versa.

β€œYou’re not going to like this.”

β€œShit, bro. Spill it.”

Tavis rolled in his bottom lip then released it. β€œBased on my experience, I believe the Illuminati found JC and tortured him.”

β€œFuck. No!” The muscles directly under Remy’s eyes quivered. It was Remy’s tell when he was tense, concerned, and maybe scared. β€œWhat kind of experience you got, man? I got experience, too, but I couldn’t come up with something like that. What kind of proof have you got? And if you doan have any, you damn well shouldn’t be telling anybody that. It’s pure fiction, and it’ll give me the willies. So stop it!”

β€œSorry. But you asked. I don’t know if Elliott was taking JC’s body home, or they were taking a broken man home. If it’s his mind, JC might never recover.”

Remy stopped midstitch to still his shaking hands. β€œFuck! I doan like the direction this conversation’s going. And how the hell could the Illuminati find him here?”

Tavis brushed the dried clumps of blood and debris off Erik’s trousers. Then he straightened the Viking king’s legs. While doing that, he looked for Erik’s brooch and found it pinned to the inside of his trousers.

β€œDo you see his other leather ankle boot?” Tavis asked Remy.

Remy looked up from what he was doing and glanced around. β€œIt could be anywhere. Look under those leaves.”

Tavis walked around the clearing and found it under a pile of leaves and branches. The strap had broken. Tavis reknotted the leather thong and slipped the ankle boot on Erik’s foot. He remained there, sitting on his haunches, looking up at the Viking king, recalling his early impressions of Erik’s broad, muscular shoulders. Tavis didn’t believe at the time that he would ever be as large as Erik. He shook his head at how dumb he’d been. By the time he entered the Naval Academy, he was bigger and broader than Erik and most of his classmates.

β€œJC was in the Far East recently,” Tavis said. β€œI don’t know what he was doing there. It’s possible he had a run-in with the Illuminati and left enough breadcrumbs behind for them to follow him home and then here.”

Remy cut the thread and put the needle aside. β€œAre we in danger?”

Tavis couldn’t help but crack a crooked smile. β€œYou mean more than usual?”

β€œHell, yeah. Braham’s fixation with security at Mallory Plantation is enough to make us all paranoid.”

β€œI believe the Illuminati’s tentacles may have already reached Ensley. Her father’s car crash was suspicious, and so was her mother’s heart attack. The woman was healthy and in great physical shape when she died.”

β€œYou’re promoting a fucking conspiracy theory?”

β€œI might be, but on its face, it is suspicious. I believe the Illuminati wanted Ensley’s ranch and somehow manipulated her into selling it.”

β€œHow’d

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