Gifts

“I know…” I whispered. Gaze falling. “But my mates thought you hold more power over him than you sound…”

“Did they?” The smiling note in her voice made me lift my head.

“Does that please you?”

“It does some, that they’d think so.”

“One confided to me that you’ve had him under your sway since you were nearly pups.”

That made her face brighten even in the dark. “Thank you for that Vanna. But please don’t say such things to anyone else.”

I understood why she asked. It could make the alpha seem weak.

“I won’t.” I promised.

***

“I will need all your help very soon.” I told my mates around the dinner table.

Vanquish set down a hawk’s leg to eye me. “Did you get the Alpha’s permission?”

“I talked to Lyra Lani.”

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