Tessa/jessica pov.
How or when we managed to trap Adrian in the cage was still a blur to me. Everything had happened too fast. All I really remembered was chaos, Zane’s growl, my mother’s faint power guiding us, and then—Adrian screaming as the spell snapped shut. One second he was lunging at Zane, and the next, the cage lit up around him with symbols I’d never seen before.
Zane had somehow connected with my mother long enough to cast the trap spell through the vessel. Even now, thinking back, it didn’t feel real.
“Don’t worry,” Zane whispered as we walked away from the cave. His voice was low, soft in a way that made my chest ache. “I already have guards watching over him. We’ll get alerted if anything happens.”
He pulled me into his arms as we kept walking. I don’t know how long we w
