He wanted to be mean and not say the words back, but Macklyn couldn't bring himself to be that cruel. He glanced at Eric again.
"I love you, as well." But they were the last things he said before he went out the door to hunt for the little mermaid who held a dangerous secret. He didn't know how easy she would be to find, but he wouldn't stop until he had. Macklyn could only hope that she hadn't communicated the news to anybody else.
He wasn't sure what he was going to do about Eric. The anger in him was much too high at this moment to truly think on what had happened.