Opal They were trying to make me feel at ease, as Amelia shooed the men out of the kitchen , leaving just the women. But it was having the opposite effect. It was pretty clear she wanted something from me, some piece of information. It was also pretty clear that she was powerful. Powerful and beautiful. It didn’t matter to me that she had an equally powerful and beautiful mate. I was jealous of her. This woman was close to Wren. He had even spoken about her to me. Had he told her about me? Or hadn’t I even entered his mind when they had been close. And exactly close had they been? I knew all my thoughts were stupid and that I had no right to feel the jealousy I was but I couldn’t help it. She was just too beautiful. All the women in the airy kitchen were. And they all had their ha

