Court of the Vampire Queen

Over the next four weeks, the bond intensifies, and the polycule moves around to avoid Cornelius’s people, who keep finding them. Mina can feel Malachi’s heartbeat when he’s miles away. She rubs her hand on her chest where she feels him, and Rylan tells her to stop. They bicker about neither one of them wanting to be bonded to the other. Rylan goes to the balcony, shapeshifts into a bird, and flies off, going in the opposite direction from Malachi. Mina wants to call Rylan back with her powers but refuses to control him. Meanwhile, Wolf paints in the basement. Mina feels separate from the men because of her seraph powers.

Malachi returns. He doesn’t think Cornelius knew Mina’s mother was a seraph. Malachi can tell Mina and Rylan have been bickering. Rylan is prejudiced against seraphim because of their actions in the distant past. Malachi kisses Mina, and she asks him to bite her. He does. Then, he gives Mina oral sex. Wolf comes into the room, and Malachi tells him to join in.