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.

I said. “You’re telling me that

up to pace, his steps measured and heavy as he walked. His expression had tightened and gone dark, and I could practically see his thoughts whirling, even if I couldn’t hear them. If he wasn’t my mate, the look on his face would have terrified

messing with, and a

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

been as detrimental to the

the truth about the Great Wars and the world at large hidden away from all

reassuring them over and over that they had no reason to fear, Malachi has made

of them

should be able to

use that, somehow?”

didn’t pace. He sat back on the couch with his hands gripping his

sense of unease drifted to me through the mind link. Not the

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with him. When Zane thought 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 taken our memories, making me Katie. A spell had also hidden my

always bad, love, “I thought

he thought it was, but I had to believe it could

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