My father took another menacing step forward. “You can do your cowardly sniffing from a distance, but if you touch one hair on a single wolf’s head under my protection, I’ll end you, council be damned. Leave.” The fae reached down, scooped up the quivering lynx under one arm, and hauled him out behind the vampire, who’d used his supernatural speed to bolt out the door so fast, he seemed to vanish. My father’s second, Dimitri, shoved the door shut on their heels with one booted foot. “Sergei will see that they leave the borders of your land. I sensed them and posted him at the door. One day, we will be rid of the ODL entirely, and their foul ways.” He strode forward and dropped easily into one of my guest chairs across from my desk. “Sit. Tell me what’s going on.” SEVEN Kane I took my

