Ax barked a laugh.“Come on, Wizard.Join the party.”
Hatcher grinned and waved.“Come on in, Giggles.Ax and I just learned that we aren’t elf mutations.”
Vemel blinked.“Well, we sort of are.But you shouldn’t exist.Who were your parents?”
“An Elite omega and one of the Dark Elite.”Hatcher grinned.“So, hot elf-on-elf action.”
Avor stared.“Seriously?”
“Yup.Dorian and Emily Overton.He’s in real estate, and she’s into owning daycare centres.”Hatcher smiled.
Avor stared.“I have met Dorian.He doesn’t feel like one of ours.”
Ax snickered.“He is, and he isn’t.The Stronghold was leaking Dark Elite as one or more of you just got out.Our great-grandfather is Ekvano.”
Avor’s eyes got huge.“Is he still alive?”
“Yup.With our great-grandmother, Jane.Our other grandparents are alive as well.”
Avor murmured, “Can you contact Ekvano?Tell him that Sirrush is here?”
Hatcher nodded.“I will make the call outside.”
She got up and moved through the kitchen, and everyone watched her go.
* * * *
Ax giggled madly.“Shereally hates that.Everyone watches her.”
Vemel looked at her.“You are truly a delta?”
“As far as we can see.I am particularly good in a fight, athletic, but still female and no heats.So, I am not a beta but not an omega either.My great-grandfather said we have deltas in the family.One of my brothers is one, so I have no reason to doubt the guy who put it in the family line.”
Asel stared.“Vemel, why aren’t they supposed to be around?”
“Well, they appear after generations of the Dark Elite are in the bloodlines, which, I suppose, is the case here.”
She nodded.“Great-Grandma is an Elite omega, and Grandma is an Elite omega, and my mom is an Elite omega.So...”
Regis stared.“Seriously?”
“Seriously.”
“I thought this was new.”
“It is...and it isn’t.”Ax grinned.“A nice lady named Kay chatted with Hatcher, and after that, she tried to tell you, but we were blocked.We couldn’t get in.We are hell on wheels in a fight.”
Avor nodded.“Yes, you would be.”
Regis blinked.“There is just one thing about that particular barrier.It wasn’t mine.”
Ax paused and then snorted.“Kay was keeping us out.That makes a certain amount of sense.”
Avor blinked.“It does?”
Hatcher came in with an older couple and said, “She didn’t want us out in the open when Vaayu showed up.”
Avor looked at the people she had brought and grinned.“Ekvano!”
