My editor just fixed chapter 39 for me! I had to delete the book from my library and re-add it for the changes to show, but it is fixed. The word count of chapter 39 is larger than chapter 40, so those that already purchased it are not losing any money. You actually got the chapter for cheaper. I'm sorry again for the mix up! Next chapter will be out tomorrow. I'm going to try to keep this on daily updates now that the holidays are ending. If I'm going to miss a day, I'll let you guys know, either in the comments or in an author note.

Elelira POVCherum and Maurice try to coax me away from the man while Percy retrieves Yasmin, holding her away and shielding her view of the naked Cedric with his body. I refuse to let him go, though. I finally found another siren. I don’t want to risk losing him, especially without finding out who exactly he is and why he keeps calling me princess. “Luna, I must insist you let him go and come with me,” Cherum tries to pull my arm to get me away, while Maurice goes to grip my other arm. Cedric, with lightening speed, slams his fist down on Cherum's wrist, forcing him to let go of me, then his arms snake around my waist, and he twists our bodies around, turning with me so I’m out of their reach, which just angers my guards further. Cherum growls, and Maurice reaches for the blade strapped to his waist. “I believe my princess does not want to go with you,” Cedric purrs in a composed, elegant voice, full of certain authority. “I can’t say I blame her. Witnessing just a bit of your

Lachlan POV“Where are they?” Killian growls in my head. He’s restless, fearful of what this siren man might be telling our mate. Fearful of what she may be telling him. He was fearful that the naked siren she was clinging to and crying on, as Cherum told us, might be able to accomplish in the single hour I gave them to get home what I may never accomplish in the next two years. Not with the rate we are going.I share his fears. If this man tries to steal my wife and my mate, I will be helpless to stop it.“They still have 10 minutes to get here,” I tell him, “10 minutes, then we can panic.”Killian scoffs, “Don’t try to claim you are not panicking now. We share a mind, idiot. I know you are just as frantic as I am.”Yes, but if I let that show when Lira gets here, I could upset her even more than I already have, and I’m trying to win back her affections, not drive them away even harder. “Alpha! The Luna and her guard are approaching the gates!” my warrior called down to me from the

“Mel!” I yelled out, walking around the armory and offices for my ranked warriors. “Gamma Meldec!” I roared, getting fed up with looking for him. I want to get rid of Cedric so I can get back to my wife. His very presence is grating on my limited nerves. “Do even your commanders hide from you, Alpha?” Cedric muses, “My princess and her handmaiden must not be the only ones.”“Fish pond,” Killian repeats, “Better yet, just give him a damn trough. The horses will share.”“I could just put him six feet under,” I tell my Lycan.“Oh, I like that idea even better.”Killian and I were lost in my head for a moment, snickering about all the degrading places we could shove our merman guest, when Meldec finally appeared walking out of the warrior's lodging.“There you are. Where the hell were you?” I growled. He looks up in surprise, eyeing Cedric for a moment, freezing in his tracts before shaking his head and looking back at me. “Alpha. I was just sorting out a dispute in the dorms,” Mel sa

“Ela, I brought the, uh...,” Cherum stops mid-speech as he walks past the door to the parlor in my bedchambers to find Lachlan and I sitting at the cozy table at the center of the room. “Alpha? I didn’t expect to see you here,” he states, looking worriedly at me, as if he was gauging if I was okay with this situation I put myself in. Not that he knows that I was the one who invited Lachlan to stay. He probably assumed that I was being forced into this arrangement.“I invited him for tea, Cherum,” I smiled reassuringly at him, “Thank you for bringing it.” Cherum sighs deeply, looking much relieved, then smiles as he continues walking towards the table and sets the tea tray down in front of me. There are two cups turned upside down on the tray, along with a covered teapot and a plate piled high with cookies and pastries. I know he had every intention of joining me, but with Lachlan here, he sets the extra tea cup in front of Lachlan instead.“Good to see you here, Alpha. I was just abou