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It’s te she’ll know if I do I shrug “I don’t knoho the father is at this point We won’t know until I have the baby, and that will only happen if we survive what comes next”

“Her to her botto to me, I’ll take it poorly”

I think I hear Wolf inhale sharply behind ”

“So it sees “Ah well, if the little beast inside you is really Radu blood, then our mother will skin me alive if I don’t help now Let me see”

She starts for me, and both Malachi and Rylan jump to their feet Lizzie s sinister” She reaches out and presses her fingertip to the back of h my entire body in a wave and she raises her eyebrows “Interesting”

“What?”

“You don’t seem the type to consort with deaze distant “Cute little shield The eer, but too early to know the flavor” She refocuses on me “I’m in I’ll do what you ask”

I don’t breathe a sigh of relief This was only the first step, and I’h to believe Lizzie until she actually shoots my father “Your price?”

“If you’re successful in this cute little coup, you’ll owe the Radu faoes knife-sharp “And you will entertain us for a few days in your new compound”

I don’t need to look at nize the trap If—e succeed, that will put me at the head of the Lancaster bloodline For better or worse, I will be a pohose choices , affect the balance of our world I lift otiate the favor away and entertain the, but I won’t do that to Wolf He feels the same way about the rest of his fa them in close proximity will be a hellish experience for hi anyone in the foreseeable future, but I aotiate a favor, provided it does no harm to me, my men, or my people, either directly or indirectly” Still too wide an offer, but I need her and she knows it

Her grin widens “Very well A favor it is” She turns back to the ritty details”