5
ELIAN
Fuck. I’d really hoped Jax had been wrong about that portal spell.
“Why Midnight?” I asked.
Haley sighed, her megawatt smile dimming. “For reasons I have no interest in sharing, I’m in debt to the Goddess Melantha. She needs a blood witch to sneak into the realm and retrieve the blood of some warlord… Kayden? Karaden?”
“Keradoc?” I asked, and she pointed at me with finger guns and winked.
Normally, I might’ve found the gesture adorable. But now?
My heart dropped into my stomach.
How the hell had Haley Barnes gotten mixed up with Melantha and f*****g Keradoc of Midnight?
“Saint,” Jax warned, as if he knew exactly where my mind was heading. “Don’t even think about—”
I lifted a hand and cut him off. Ignoring his glare—along with every alarm blaring inside my head—I said, “De
