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heart and batted my eyelashes. “My hero.”
He laughed. “Go to bed, Harding.”
The craziness of the weather made me wonder if there was another option. I’d been skiing, snowshoeing, and snowmobiling my whole life and never been stuck like this before. It had me thinking about the snowmobiles. All the ones here were damaged by water, but you had to be pretty close to do that sort of damage, pull the water out of the air to flood a tank or something. Though the Ski-Doo at the cabin was buried with snow, how likely would it be that whoever was sabotaging our stuff would know it was there and travel far enough to do it?
“Something still on your mind?” Gabe asked when I didn’t head toward the bedrooms.
“I was just thinking about the snowmobiles. If you do end up walking, remember there’s a sled at the cabin still. That one might not be filled with water. Just buried in snow.”
He stared at me for a minute, like he was trying to figure me out. Though I didn’t think I was all that complicated. “Okay. That might be an option.”
I turned to head back to the room, but paused. “I would never hurt Sei. You know that, right?”
“Sei trusts you. Just remember how often that trust has been violated. The next one who comes against him, I will destroy.”
“Understood and agreed.” Despite being tempted to ask if I could curl up with Seiran just to try to get some sleep, I didn’t. I made my way back to my room and contemplated the blowing snow. The icy crystals couldn’t give me anything more than vague impressions.

Chapter Eleven
Jamie
    I
WOKE up to find Kelly gone. The first instinct of panic made me roll over to see if he was just in the bathroom, but the door was open and the light off. It was almost 3:00 a.m. Where could he be? Maybe Sei’s room?
    Throwing on a T-shirt and grabbing a key, I tiptoed down the hall to Gabe and Sei’s room, using the spare Gabe had given me to open the door. Sei slept curled around Gabe’s pillow, but otherwise alone. I watched him sleep for a few minutes, marveling at the peace he seemed to find at night.
    How many times had he been hurt by others? Used like he was nothing more than a puppy someone could throw away when they were done. Abused by the people who claimed to love him. First Tanaka, who always treated him with an iron fist, shaping his life for him while condemning him at every turn. Then Matthew, who convinced my brother he was nothing more than a hole to fuck, making him fear commitment, love, and emotion of all kind. And then Brock, who had been the first real friend that Sei had made in his college years.
    Now there was Kelly. Who spent endless hours with Sei. Had convinced us all to trust him, let him into our lives. He knew all of Gabe’s secrets, had a key to the underground apartment, which put Gabe in danger. Kelly slept just feet from Sei. Had access to their food and water and could stage an accident at any time. He’d wormed his way so deeply into our lives that even I’d begun to wonder how I’d existed before him.
    But the snow and the storms, they would need a strong water witch to create them. How easy it would have been for him to put water in the lines of the sleds. He was a level five witch. He could probably drown a man where he stood without breaking a sweat. Sure, he didn’t have much training, but that made a witch more dangerous, didn’t it?
    With the last few months of mishaps, the only explanation could be that Kelly was part of it all. Maybe he’d been bitten by Roman months ago. Forced to befriend Sei and dig so deeply into our lives that we wouldn’t suspect him. That could be the only reason he wasn’t in bed at this hour. Everyone but Gabe and me was out to hurt Sei.
    Seiran had to be shown the truth. We couldn’t trust strangers anymore. Kelly wasn’t family. Him not being in bed when everyone else was meant he had to be off doing something to hurt us all. The pain of it stung, but I couldn’t let it control me.