Alden Alden wanted to roll his eyes. For whatever reason, Council meetings had become chaos since Bjorn had resigned. He suspected it was something to do with how much more relaxed Arabella was now that she was mated. Not to mention that Drayce just didn"t care, and that they had an unfilled seat. "What about one of the lions?" Arabella suggested, sounding about as exasperated as Alden felt. "Not happening." To Alden"s surprise, it was the normally placid Nathalie who"d spoken. "Invite a lion in here, and you"ll be looking for two new Council members." Her pale eyes blazed, and he wondered what was going on there. Nathalie had always been the voice of reason on the Council, as was to be expected considering she was a unicorn shifter, and that they were a peace-loving race. Or at least,

