“Are you not supposed to be with your mate?” Carson asked Vince while yawning. Vince, the vampire council and the shifter’s council came to Carson’s castle to hold a meeting. At night. When nobody was expecting them.

“He came with me,” Gwenn stated as she popped from behind Vince back to his front where she grinned at Carson. “Your place is the first place aside from our home that our child has been since he was born.”

“And you should feel damn lucky about that fact since it was never my plan to drag them away from safety.” Vine said and Carson frowned.

“Then why did you?”

“Because we need...