I TOLD THEM EVERYTHING. My heritage as a changeling. Aiti tortured by the Queen of Faery. The deadline to return with the Kingmaker. My amorphous plan, when I put the sword back, to try to team up with Lupe’s crew in order to save my mother without giving the Queen more power than she already had.
They listened in silence. Ash’s eyes were interested. The hard lines around Lupe’s lips were doubtful. Ryder remained so deadpan I couldn’t get a handle on what he might think.
“Convenient that you decided to come to us with this information at the exact moment you were caught in the act,” Lupe observed. She was still crowding me, her wolf in her eyes and my wolf in my throat.
Ash, in contrast, had leapt up to perch on the edge of the counter, far enough away so his presence was a non-issue. R
