LXIV

Rudi placed her hands on her mate’s arm. “That battle is done. We need to focus on the new one. Don’t hold her guilty for her father’s transgressions.”

Kaleb gnashed his teeth. “How can you say that?” He turned his glare to Isaac. “Did you forget your first years as King? Why would you welcome that back in?”

Before Isaac could react, I jumped in. As the only mortal, I was in the dark, and I was anxious to know how old wounds impacted how we chose to proceed with the eight million interweaving problems we were juggling.

But hey, what was adding one more to the mix?

“So does someone want to fill me in?” I asked. “Because I feel like I’m pretty behind on… everything.”

Rudi cast me a sympathetic glance. “It really doesn’t matter anymore. It’s in the past.”

“It still matters,” Kaleb scoffed. “It matters a lot.”

It was interesting to watch Kaleb’s happy go lucky demeanor fall away into one of fresh anger and determination. I had no doubt whatever it was did matter a lot, even if it w