Blackfeather Woods I will show you some tenderness

Meldresi had tuned out the rest of the conversation as she drifted off into a light sleep. Only to her family did she let see her in such a weakened position, since she trusted that they would still respect her even if she showed her flaws. But her ears perked when she caught the words "mom", "you" and "mates" slipping from Damien's mouth.

The Night Queen awoke fully now, straightening herself up and looking towards her eldest son. "No, not officially." Burke was too injured to "seal the deal", and he would be for a while, regardless of whatever lusts were flowing through him at the moment. "I suppose Burke is, what you would call...a consort." A King Consort, though she kept that to herself. Who knew what kind of things that would send through his head.