LILY'S POV
"Coffee first. Everything else after."
"I'm not going to argue with that," I said.
"Good." Sable set two mugs on the table and sat down across from us like she'd been sitting across from people who needed coffee and answers for so long it had become the same motion. "Most people who arrive at my door at this hour argue with everything. Nerves."
"I'm past nerves."
"Yes." She looked at me over the rim of her mug. "I can see that."
The kitchen was large and warm and smelled like woodsmoke and whatever had been cooking since before most people were awake. The morning briefing was in twenty minutes. I could hear the pack moving through the building around us. Quiet and purposeful and completely unbothered by two strangers at their Alpha's table.
That said something about how s
