“So until then, I’m assigning the three of you to a retrieval pickup.”
“What? Me as well?” Cael exploded, her expression filled with anger as she finally strode forward and joined the conversation. She’d been leaning against the wall, obviously not happy about being anywhere near them... just as she was now.
Both brothers felt her ire as she glared at them and then at Lyon. “Why do I get included in the punishment as well?”
It was the angriest any of them had ever seen her, but Lyon didn’t quail in the face of it.
“Yes. I need you all safe and off the base. You included. Besides,” his stoic expression relaxed into a small smile. “Without you to make them toe the line, what kind of trouble do you think these two’ll get themselves into?”
Archon opened his mouth to argue, but a sharp wor
