Bound to Four Alphas
"The message was explicit about the terms. April, alone, unescorted, before the sun rises. Any attempt to bring allies, any attempt to negotiate, and the terms will not be honored."
"That's not a negotiation," Riven snarls. "That's a trap dressed up as mercy."
"Obviously," Lucien says, though his voice carries none of his usual sharp wit, only exhaustion and dread. "The question is whether it's a trap April can survive walking into, or one specifically designed to guarantee she can't."
"I have to go," I say, the words leaving my mouth before I've fully thought them through.
"Absolutely not," Jodan says immediately, closing the distance between us. "April, this is exactly the outcome Elowen h