Kael looked at Nicholas like he was a toddler holding a permanent marker.
"Cute. Very don't touch my chew toy. Also extremely fucking stupid. Two problems the size of continents. You take her tonight, Maddox declares war before breakfast. And she keeps disappearing into holy goddamn flashlight mode, and I'm the only idiot who can absorb that shit."
"I am getting my mate out of a Keep where she just got backhanded. I'll have my Master Mage solve the white light issue."
"Your plan is kidnapping the Dragon King's wife and pretending geopolitics don't exist. Stunning. Someone get Brennan a sandwich. Did Damon rubber-stamp this, or are we all just winging the apocalypse?"
"Damon doesn't approve my personal decisions."
"He should. His strategic instincts are better than yours and that's coming from a dragon, so let that sting for a minute."
