Redtail Rise and a five pointed dagger

he could see she was upset, but when his mate spoke it was about the kids and masque and red. he hadn't gone back to see, thinking he would only implicate himself, and that shame sat on top of his soul like grease.
he felt sick.
and now that he'd said all that, ancelin was positive that avicus would make him pay for it. someday soon. a powerful sense of resentment gripped him and he pulled away to flick his eyes over the horizon.
"masque and the kids chose her," he reminded lilia in a monotone. the subtext was that they did not intend to choose anyone else over avicus.
augur wouldn't fight and he truly didn't want his mate in the middle of his accelerated bullshit. but now there was no chance of anything else.
they should have left days ago.