Victoria Morvaine. The most powerful witch of the last century. Disappeared twelve years ago without explanation. Last confirmed sighting.....a small house on the outskirts of Shadowmere Pack territory.
Lilith would have been ten years old.
He stopped.
Let it sit.
The room was quiet.
Then Lucian said.... "She was never wolfless."
"No," Nicholas said.
"Her power was suppressed."
"Deliberately. Carefully. From the time she was a child."
Lucian turned away.
Put both hands flat on the mantelpiece and stood there with his head down and his shoulders tight and said nothing for a long moment. Zev was right there at the surface. Nicholas could feel it from across the room. Not pushing. Just....present. Feeling something that Lucian was feeling and couldn't put into words yet.
Sebastian hadn't moved from the window.
"Victoria is her aunt," he said. "Her mother's sister."
"Yes."
"And Lilith's mother was Eleanor Morvaine."
"Yes."
