Zade calls up Odin when Ivory is helping Abir. His head wasn't bleeding any more. Thankfully, Inara was fine too, she was just knocked down. When Zade appears from the kitchen, they all dread looking at his face.

"What happened?" Inara asks in concern.

Zade relates everything that happened. How Evelyn did everything from blackmailing them to even working with the Black Alders.

"I can't believe this!" Ivory says out loud in anger, "I always hated that bitch."

Abir gulps thinking that if Evelyn was working with the Black Alders, then....

He rushes out of the house and comes back with a worried look on his face.

"The maps!" he pants, "The maps are gone."

Zade realizes what this means. This means Inara isn't safe anymore.

"Pack her bags." He looks at Ivory. "We are leaving town, now!"

Abir nods, knowing the situation. He takes a suitcase and stuffs Inara's clothes in it.

"Why?" Inara stops him but Ivory speaks with disgust.

"His little bitch stole the maps. So, they know the location of the ancestral home now." She seemingly accuses Zade.

"Technically, they won't find the house. It took us hours." Abir replies, frantically stuffing everything. Zade stands there, looking at the messy house. Before it was a small, safe place.

"What if Victor knows, huh?" Ivory is shocked that he was taking Zade's side. "He went there once already!"

"That's a risk we need to take," Zade says.

"You don't get to have a say in this! It is because of you that Evelyn even did this to us in the first place." Zade keeps his head down, listening to Ivory. He knows that she is right.

"It will take Victor days to find it. We buy some time till then." Abir tries to calm Ivory but she just leaves the house. Abir goes after her.

"Are you okay?" Zade asks Inara.

"What if I can't ever heal Damon?" she rewinds what happened when Evelyn came into their house.

───── ❝ Flashback ❞ ─────

"You are doing the wrong thing!" Inara warns Evelyn as she was busy tying her up. Ivory was unconscious on the floor and Inara was a sentence away from being gagged.

"I don't get lectures from a wannabe wolf." Evelyn hisses, tightening the ropes.

"What do you want?" Inara pleads.

"Zade." She smirks which makes her blood boil. That bitch!

"Oh, don't worry honey." She caresses Inara's face before slapping her, "I just want his signature."

"Then we can do this in a lot more civil manner!" Inara snaps back, hissing with the stinging pain on her cheek.

Evelyn doesn't answer her but she keeps staring at her face. "What makes you think you can heal him? Your wolf blood? I don't think that."

Inara looks down. She has been doubting herself for some time now and Evelyn was just digging into her insecurities.

"How would you know?" Inara brings up her courage to ask her.

Evelyn smirks. It was working! She was known to break people's confidence and crush them under her feet.

"Do you really think that even if you manage to heal Damon, Zade will magically fall for you?" she roams the house, the tik tok of her heels echoing in the silent house. Inara was as silent as the house.

"No more confidence to talk back to me?" She smirks due to the lack of an answer from Inara. "Zade is selfish. His pack always comes first. Why do you think I am in this state? Any normal wolf would have mated me a long time ago. But Zade, he is selfish."

"Thinking about spending a whole lifetime with you is enough torture, let alone actually spend one," Inara says back. Evelyn stuffs her mouth with a piece of cloth to stop her from speaking.

"You speak as you know him. I was with that man for six years." Evelyn huffs out. "All these minions have put it in your head that you are a lot more worth than you actually ought to be."

"You wouldn't believe, there was a point in my life when I was starting to fall for Zade." Evelyn chuckles, remembering how stupid she was, "But I realized, even those we love the most can be poison to our souls. It's kinda ironic how our hearts can still get hurt by something we already saw coming. I already saw it coming that Zade won't ever love me. But I kept trying."

"He was doomed for this. His whole pack, Damon, Zade, were all doomed for it when Irene left my pack to suffer so she could fulfill her selfish desires. You are nothing but a useless piece of shit that Zade will discard once he has gotten your use. He will be the sweetest devil with you but still a devil."

"At least that's what he did with me." And then she knocks Inara with the base of her knife.

───── ❝ Flashback Ends ❞ ─────

"What if I can't ever heal Damon?" Inara asks, remembering what Evelyn said.

"Don't let Evelyn's words affect you." He takes her hands. Evelyn is known for manipulating people and he can bet she would have said something rubbish to Inara. "You are strong from within." He leans in to kiss her forehead.

As she feels his lips touch her forehead, Evelyn's words ring in her ears.

"He will be the sweetest devil with you but still a devil."

The phone rings waking them from their thoughts. Inara picks it up, seeing it was a call from the hospital. She drops the phone as soon as she hears it. Zade looks at her confusingly before taking the phone himself.

"Hello?"

"Zade, it's me, Isaac. Kyros...Kyros is awake!"