“She was uniting the factions under the guise of peace to build her an army of supernaturals for when she planned to expose us all to the humans,” Sebastian said. None of that was news.
“You think Eloise Roberts wants the vampires and shifters at her side?” Indigo asked, then threw back her head and laughed.
“You’re making us look unhinged.”
The laughter stopped and she shook her head. “She wants your magic, your power, your numbers, but never for one instant did Eloise want to work alongside you. If I had the original treaty, I might be able to glean what she intended.”
“But my idiot father destroyed it,” Sebastian grumbled. Yet again, Leon’s short-sighted idiocy burned us.
Hudson shifted under Indigo as he cleared his throat. “Actually, I have the original.”
Nobody breathed as that sunk in. “You swapped them?” Aunt Dayna said with a delighted look on her face.
Dave didn’t blink, clearly in on this fact. Everyone else in the room eyeballed Hudson with distrust.
“What?” he growled. “You expected me to just sign a piece of parchment that The President of The Order made, without having it examined first? I’m not stupid.”
“We shall discuss that breach in trust another time,” Sebastian answered with all the royal entitlement in his blood.
“Did you find anything unusual?” Aunt Liz asked.
Hudson shook his head. “No, but I couldn’t use the most powerful elementals to check, because they would all report back to Eloise, or they are her family.”
“And now that we stand united against her, you trust us?” Rebecca said.
“Yes,” Hudson said.
“After we are done here, I’ll retrieve it,” Dave said.
“And in the meantime, I believe we should be working on a counter spell,” Aunt Dayna said as she stood.
“To counteract what?” Hudson asked.
“Everything,” she said with a grin before stepping over Bella who was still tumbling around on the floor with my aunt’s ball of wool. Dayna skipped out of the room.
“Could you bring Cora back?” Hudson asked.
Indigo pouted. “I’m hungry.” Oh boy.
Harry flung himself at Indigo with a warrior’s cry and passed right through us, Hudson, and the chair. Hudson shivered.
“Stop that, you foolish spirit, you can’t force me out of where I belong,” Indigo muttered just as Aunt Sophia stood. She shooed Bella away and handed the wool to Sebastian.
“Roll that for me, dear,” she demanded, patting his cheek.
Sebastian began winding the wool with an expression that seemed to be contemplating how he ended up here. Welcome to my life.
“Now, we can’t have the growing girl go hungry,” Sophia muttered, going to my kitchen and claiming something from the refrigerator. She popped the bowl in the microwave. Wait, when did I get a microwave?
The little light popped on and she hummed some tune I vaguely recalled from my childhood.
The scent of meat, spices, and cabbage flooded the room. “I’m out,” Dave said, rushing out the door. Damn, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him move that fast.
“What is that?” Indigo asked.
“My aunt’s famous cabbage rolls.”
“Are they better than souls?”
