The Lost Heir
"All of you. There's a lot to cover."
They crowded into the Stonehaven meeting room — council members at the table, Nix and Dylan standing, Maya beside Alec with Ivy in the chair next to her, still barefoot, still calm in the way that had stopped feeling like a child's calm somewhere in the last hour. Coalition wolves lined the walls. Someone had made coffee that nobody was drinking.
Cedric looked at Nix and Dylan. "I don't know you."
"Nix," she said. "Luna of the Northern Coalition. This is my mate Dylan." She said it simply, no performance in it. "Three years. We've been tracking this for three years."