"No, you don't understand." Ezra argued, shaking his head in denial, "Angus couldn't possibly be Violet's father. He died several years before she was even born."
"Or so you were led to believe by the Council of Elders, and Elijah himself, who benefited greatly from having his brother removed." Asher said it easily, like he was reading from a history textbook.
Ezra stumbled back a step, shell-shocked.
He wanted to reject it outright. After all, they were just kids. What did they know about politics that old? But this was Asher and he didn't speak unless he had facts.
Ezra slowly lifted his eyes toward Violet and now that he truly looked at her, he saw it.
Those eyes.
Angus' were a shade darker, colder perhaps but the structure, the intensity, and the sharpness behind them were his.
Quite alright.
"So," Nancy began slowly, her voice tight with confusion, "I don't know werewolf history very well but isn't Micah's father the former Alpha King?"
