Even though I had told Lazarus that we were okay, I knew deep down inside that we weren’t. I did still love him, how could I not, but a part of me was not sure I could trust him anymore. I could tell that he had picked up on this as instead of our usual sleeping arrangement with me in the middle on one of my mate's chests with my other mates either side of me, I slept on Kadzait’s chest with Caleb to the side of me and Lazarus on the other side of him. A part of me was sad to have that distance between us, but a bigger part was thankful for it.
All too soon we had to get up and ready to leave, looking fondly around the room that we shared. We would have to travel to the valley where Asloxorth and his people were last held up by foot. It would take too much magic to try and teleport every
