MARKED BY FATE: THE ALPHA PRINCE'S REGRET
He read it out loud, slow and careful, like the words might break if he wasn't gentle.
"When the three awaken together, the boundary will remember them."
The room went dead quiet. That cold feeling slid through me again, the same one I'd felt in council meetings when the truth was hiding just out of reach. Something bigger was moving under the surface, and I couldn't see what it was yet.
"Boundary," Wren repeated. "Not throne. Not bloodline. Boundary."
"The word could mean a lot of things in the oldest languages," Corvin said, but he didn't sound convinced. "A border. A ritual line. A..." He cut off, something hitting him so hard he couldn't finish.