Rowan's POVI was the one who dug up the information about Joshua's plans, tracking down enough details to confirm he was preparing to introduce Lyra to his parents. When I brought it to my brothers, I expected them to feel the same fury building in my chest, but I never expected Lyra herself would be the one directing that fury back at us the moment she found out we knew.We were already stretched thin trying to locate her real family, and now on top of everything else, we had to figure out how to keep some human from pulling her further away from us before we even had the chance to explain ourselves properly. Just thinking about Joshua meeting her, holding her hand in front of his parents, planning some future that had no place for any of us in it, made my hands curl into fists without me even realizing it. Every version of that future I imagined ended with her name attached to someone who wasn't any of us, and I couldn't stomach it.The silence in the room stretched too long after L
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