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“What have you discovered while I’ve been holed up withtoward the monitors

“Saint and Samuel never showed,” Zachariah noted, his voice weary “Not at the battle, at least”

“There was no sign of theoatee

“Maybe they didn’t have anything to do with this,” Talon offered, a hopeful tone in his voice I couldn’t blame him I’d look for any explanation to absolve my brothers, too

“Or maybe they knein and didn’t want to associate themselves with it,” Ajax countered

“If that’s the case, then this is bigger than just helping the witches fight for reed

“Is Avi speaking yet?” Lachlan asked

Hawke shook his head

A coh the chamber

My eyes widened as a thought wor to overthrow the Conclave”

“What?” Alek’s head whipped toward mine Everyone’s did

Jocelyn laced her fingers withme her support

“Luka is dead, so the lycans will have to choose a new alpha,” I began

“If you can call that giant battle they have choosing,” Lachlan muttered

“And Luna is now the queen of the witches…” I glanced toward Jocelyn

“It’s true She was crowned before she came to help me” She nodded “That means you have thole new members of Conclave, one of whom you can’t predict because you don’t knoho they are, yet”

Alek nodded “Patrick is already scared and the hu We weakened the Sons in that battle, but they struck deep and weakened us, too”