Into the Fae by Quinn Loftis Page B

not. She also knows that we will defeat it.”
    “Do you think I should let my sister go?” She asked him quietly.
    “No, but I think you should do it in the right order. If Lorelle finds out about these healers she might try to take them. You and I both know that there have been other powerful enemies who have wanted healers for their own use. If Lorelle truly has turned away from the light and embraced the darkness, then abducting a healer to use her power would just be the next step in her evolution.”
    Peri let out a slow deep breath and reluctantly stepped out of Lucian’s hold. She turned and looked at him. “And here I thought this would all be cut and dry. Hunt down my sister, bitch slap her for being stupid, sentence her to death and then live happily ever after.”
    Lucian ’s head tilted to the side as he looked at his mate. “Sometimes you say the most unorthodox things.”
    “Now you’re just showing your age old man,” she teased him. She let out a weary sigh as she headed towards the door. “Well we’re supposed to meet my partners in crime at midnight to leave on our hunt; I guess I will have to tell them there has been a change in plans.”
    “Peri,” Lucian’s’ voice brought her up short of pulling the door open. “Can I ask why you do not just flash where you want to go? Why do you walk so much if you do not have to?”
    Peri smiled as she turned and looked at her mate. “Do you honestly think this incredible figure would be possible if all I did was pop in and out of places?  Immortal or not , all this,” she motioned to her frame, “takes work.”
    Lucian let out a low huff of laughter, “Whatever you say love.” He took her hand and led her from the room.
    They found the two couples at the edge of the forest where Peri had instructed them to meet her. The way they were draped over one another made them look more like two teenage couples after prom, rather than elite fae hunters and werewolves waiting on a mission briefing.
    “Do n’t you all ever give it a rest? I mean I seriously think you are worse than Jen and her fur ball and really that’s saying something,” Peri grumbled as she approached the pairs.
    Adam pulled his lips away from the spot on Crina’s neck that he had so dutifully been giving all his attention and looked at Peri. “All work and no play makes for a cranky fae, Peri. You’re frown and the frustrated look on your mate ’s face is a testament to that statement. Perhaps you could learn something from us and the Serbian Alpha pair.”
    “Are you seriously giving me advice now on my …,”
    “Peri,” Lucian’s voice cut her off before she could continue. “Perhaps you should tell them what the Great Luna has revealed.”
    Peri folded her arms across her chest as she eyed Adam and then Elle. “If you two think you can pull yourselves from your mate’s body parts for five minutes then I will gladly fill you in on what Lucian is talking about.”
    “I think she’s getting crankier,” Elle told Adam.
    Adam nodded. “Agreed.”
    “The Great Luna has given Peri a new mission, one that doesn’t involve going after her sister at this time,” Lucian spoke up interrupting any more by play between his mate and her long time comrades.
    “She’s just going to let Lorelle go?” Elle asked incredulously.
    “No,” Peri spoke up. “I’m not just going to let her go, but I am going to do as the Great Luna has instructed and then I will go after my sister.”
    “What could be more important than taking out a murdering high fae?” Sorin asked.
    “Gypsy healers,” Peri responded.
    The group gasped at her answer as their eyes widened.
    “There are more?” Crina asked.
    “According to the Great Luna there are five females, ages sixteen to twenty that need to know of their heritage and be trained,” Peri explained. “She wants me to find them and bring them to a safe place for Rachel and I to teach them, and then she wants them introduced to the