The courtyard had gone still by the time they reached it, the three unfamiliar horses standing patiently beside a scatter of Blackthorn guards who clearly hadn't expected visitors tonight either.Lucian's stride didn't change, but everything about him had shifted. The ease from the hillside folded away somewhere Nyra couldn't see, replaced by the same authority she'd watched command a hall full of strangers on her first night here.The Windmore delegation waited near the entrance, and Nyra's attention went immediately to the man at its center.He wasn't what she expected.Where most of the wolves she'd encountered carried themselves with some degree of guardedness, this man was something else entirely: slim, almost delicate, dressed in soft grays that made no aim to intimidate anyone. He was, if she was being honest, beautiful in a way that had nothing to do with power.Brassy curls, bright eyes. An easy smile already forming as Lucian approached. The kind of open, cheerful face that
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