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with the Dark. The lass has gumption in spades.”
    â€œAnd no’ much sense.”
    â€œYou can no’ blame her for wanting retribution.”
    Thorn shrugged. “We’re assuming someone died.”
    â€œI think you’re right. That’s the only explanation for her risking her life so.”
    â€œShe knows how close to death she came,” Thorn said. “I saw it in her eyes just now. She was scared.”
    â€œYet still stood against them. Brave girl.”
    She certainly was. Thorn looked up at the gray skies as the rain fell faster. It was the perfect time for them to fly, but neither he nor Darius would risk it with so many Dark looking for them.
    â€œShe appears dead on her feet,” Darius said.
    Thorn had noticed that as well. The dark circles under her bloodshot eyes were more pronounced than the day before. “Let’s clean this up.”
    â€œI’ll clean it up. You follow her.”
    Thorn nodded to Darius and started after the female. He wished he had thought to ask her name, but he doubted she would’ve given it to him. She didn’t trust him, and she was right to question everyone and everything.
    The Dark Fae had changed things by coming to Edinburgh. Great Britain had always been off-limits to them, but they were blatantly showing themselves. They wanted war, and they wanted the humans to know what they were.
    The Dragon Kings, however, preferred to keep the humans in the dark on all things magic. Mainly because the Kings knew exactly what would happen if the humans learned of them.
    They had been through that once. The result was the Kings sending all of their dragons to another realm to stop the war while they remained behind.
    The Dark would keep pushing. The war they wanted had been accepted by the Kings. The only difference this time was that the rules had changed—at least for the Kings.
    The Dark Fae couldn’t care less who knew of their existence. They fed off humans.
    The Kings might have taken a small lead, but soon they would have to decide to fight the Dark in their dragon forms, or give the realm over to them.
    Neither possibility was a good one.

 
    CHAPTER
    SIX
    Three hours later and Lexi couldn’t shake the chills. The rain had yet to stop, and by the looks of the dark gray sky, it wasn’t going to either. She went from store to store, anything to keep moving and stay warm. Though it didn’t help when she went back out into the rain each time.
    The soup she ate helped to warm her, as did the tea, but the moment she saw a Red Eyes in the pub, she hurried out, leaving half of her soup uneaten.
    Her stomach rumbled. Everywhere she looked there were Red Eyes. It was as if they had taken over the world like the aliens did in the sci-fi movies.
    If it was all a dream, she wished she would wake up. But she knew it was real. Every deadly, gut-wrenching, heart-stopping moment of it was genuine.
    Lexi stopped beneath the overhang of a shop and looked around at the city. Edinburgh hadn’t been on her wish list to see. It had been on Jessica’s, but Lexi found Scotland to be different than what she’d expected.
    Though now, she was beginning to hate the city. She just wanted to be warm and dry beneath dozens of blankets so she could sleep.
    She didn’t have the money to find another place to stay, but she couldn’t return to her flat with the Red Eyes there. She couldn’t sleep on the streets either.
    Lexi bit back a sob. She was alone in a dangerous city full of killers. What had ever made her think she could do this on her own?
    She wiped her sleeve across her face and huddled against the wind. God, she was so cold. She could no longer feel her toes, fingers, or her upper lip, and her nose was quickly following. Everything was numb—and wet.
    A police vehicle drove by, and for just an instant Lexi thought about going to D.I. MacDonald. That thought was quickly forgotten since she knew MacDonald