#Chapter 226

Theodore’s POV The five of us sat tensely in a private room in a corporate looking building next to the Town Square in Darkmoon. Riley and Violet were going over the finer points of her speech together. It felt like every day, we learned that kid had yet another talent that was proving extremely useful. As we were in the middle of the first week of Dahlia and Kincaid’s honeymoon, the two others in the room were their seconds: Colby and Sinclair. Those two were focused on our surroundings, on the sounds of the amassing crowd outside, on the locked door assuring our privacy in this room. But all of us were on edge after Violet’s hallucination a couple nights ago. Speaking of Riley’s talents, it had been him who had heard Violet’s screaming and come running. Sinclair and Colby got to our bedroom eventually, after Violet had come back to us. When they had appeared in a calm rush at our bedroom door that Riley had left open, eyes quickly assessing the blood on my neck, on Riley