After illegible signatures were slashed across dotted lines, Lucy demanded, “Where are they?”

“Well,” Valor began. “Seeing that I initially sought a postponement, the ones behind the conspiracy aren’t her—”

Lucy and Xandar growled, shooting up from their seats once more as their thunderous rumble echoed through the room, at which time every other wolf and lycan stood. The strength of their snarls reverberated through everyone’s eardrums, making Abbott and Valor shudder internally. 

Their glacial, onyx eyes drained the color out of Valor, and Xandar’s voice turned deeper and more threatening than anyone had ever heard when he ordered, “You fucking get them here. In this room. In thirty minutes....