“You would have brought Katya here?” Tessa asked tightly. “They have been trying to get into Anala Kingdom for decades,” Brecken answered. “She was the first fire Fae I found in all my time here. I was supposed to bring her here. She was never supposed to go to the Emerging,” he answered. “But you brought her to the Celeste Estate.” He nodded. “I knew what they’d do to her, and I couldn’t… It was the only way I could protect her then.”

