Her Three Alphas
And then something shifted in me, not the silver light surging, not Nyssa alarming, but a quiet, particular quality of resolution, the kind that arrives when the thing you have been afraid of finally names itself and you understand that you have been building toward this moment for longer than you knew.
"Good," I said. All three of them looked at me. Thorian's eyes narrowed slightly, not doubt, attention. "If he thinks the bonds are a vulnerability," I said, "he doesn't understand what the bonds are. They are not a pressure point. They are an amplifier. Every threat he directs at me, he directs at all four of us, which means every threat at me is answered by everything all four of us can bri