Chapter 423

Lanie

Being able to glimpse what Stella had been able to see about the High Council should have been more comforting, but knowing their plans made me so angry I had to get up and pace around the room.

Only when I paused to look at my mates’ startled expressions did I realize that I’d been buzzing around the room like a bee. I consciously slowed myself. I hadn’t even broken a sweat this time.

Xander punched a fist into his opposite palm. “We’ll be ready for them!”

Stella shook her head. “Sorry, Daddy, but no. The High Council has way too many soldiers at their command. More even than you’ve ever known of.

They’ve spent their time these past months recruiting.

There aren’t enough people in Brightsky who are combat trained.”

Mason shook his head. “We were trying to work on that.”

“No time for it now,” Xander said.

“There won’t be enough capable staff to fight and protect those not capable of fighting,” Stella explained.

kind of talent,” I said. “You’re telling me that with all the

tightened and gone dark, and I could practically

had no idea who they were messing with, and a fierce pride rose

here in the enclave have never had to even think about fighting or defending themselves. They’ve been safe here for so

been as detrimental to the enclave as the

keep the truth about the Great Wars and the world

had no reason to fear, Malachi has made it almost

of

here should be able to come

use that, somehow?” Mason

He sat back on the

drifted to me through the mind link. Not

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with him. When Zane thought of witches,

even aware of that fear, but when he imagined the use of spells, even in Brightsky’s defense, he flashed back to Rhiannon and being forced to succumb to the workings of her magic. He also remembered using magic to help me get inside the hybrid testing facility, and, even further back, the spell that had

love, “I

but I had

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