CHRISTOPHER’S POV
I should've known better when Kai had informed us about King Larson's summon to the strategy room. I should've seen it coming. But I'd been so consumed about setting my eyes on Ella who'd suddenly gone on hiatus, to care about anything else.
My brothers and I sat around the huge oak table that spread across the strategy room. Father stood, crossing his hands behind him, with his back turned to us. Kai sat at the far end of the table. A tense facial expression clouded his face. Then again, had he not always looked that way?
The strategy room was thrown into a dead silence and a mixture of tension, so thick I could cut through it with a knife.
After a few beats passed, father cleared his throat. “Times and things have changed, since Lori came into the picture,” he be
