“The council?” Lizzie asked before her mother could say anything. “What’s the council?”
Her mother’s lips pressed together in a straight line, and Lizzie saw her nostrils were flaring. She shook her head and didn’t answer Lizzie’s question.
Lizzie looked between her mother and Old Jake.
“The council wanted nothing to do with me after I fell in love with Edward,” she ground out. “They will now have nothing to do with our daughter.”
Old Jake looked at her for a moment, then nodded.
“They will hear nothing from the folks around here either,” he told her.
Her mother stared at him for a moment before nodding.
“Besides introducing you to my daughter, I also wanted to ask about the people up here,” she told him. “Are there any new weres in the area?”
He shook his head and said
