“Do you have her?” Cain demanded without missing a beat. All manner of caution and diplomatic handling of matters left him. He wanted to find Dalinda and he didn’t care how he did it. Alexandra coolly looked the brothers over for a moment. He was assessing them and calculating the probabilities. He then leaned back in his chair and took on a deceptively relaxed pose. None of the brothers were fooled. Alexandra was old and strong. It would take him less than a second to move from his chair and decapitate both of them on the spot. The thought made Nathan swallow slowly as he carefully looked around and assessed their options. He had followed his brother into the council house without question and he would stand by his side no matter what, but he would much rather they both lived

