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The lie twists like a knife in my chest. All my life, the three of us—four of us, truly, because Vedran’s contributions cannot be understated—have been a bulwark against the world. The continuation of the family name, the legacy, has been our heart. Mother destabilized the balance. Father’s unpredic

Something thuds. I’m starting to turn when I smell it—ink and some purple flower I can never remember the name of.Shit. My time is up.I scrape bubbles toward my chest a heartbeat before the bathroom door slams open with a thud that instantly explains the first noise I heard. Graceful as a herd of

A military power. Alpha Iraj wastes no opportunity to show off that the pack’s ancestral wind powers are staggeringly strong in him and that he has hand-picked his army for the same. Of course, his allyship is the first Corwyn would seek. No matter how often I suggest this might not come to all-out

“No.”Kieran stares at me like he can pry the answers he’s looking for out of my skull. I stare dully back at him. We’ll never be close, that’s more than clear. But at least I don’t have to wear his frustration with how incomprehensible I am to him as a bruise for the rest of my Goddess-damned life.

“Cousin!” Corwyn smiles at me. “I’ve prepared everything for Uncle Alden’s arrival. I thought he might like some privacy.”As I would have, I think to myself. My first scraps of information about Mother in three months will come with an audience.I shake the thought away as soon as I have it. Tansy