Kendrick blew a kiss at Darian. "Thank you for the portal, Your Highness."
"Highness?" Several people echoed. Kendrick frowned. "You haven't told them yet? I thought that would have been one of the first things you did on this visit."
Darian shrugged. "We've been busy."
Kendrick eyed Meryn. "I'm not surprised." He turned back to Law. "You couldn't tell them?"
Law stood scowling before he walked around his brothers to effectively stand behind the queen. "I'm not suicidal
."
Brennus reached behind his mate and dragged Law behind his own chair. "Please do not use my mate and the queen of all the fae as a shield."
Thane took in Law's words and pulled his fist back to punch Kendrick. Kendrick sighed and whispered a spell. "I really didn't want to have to do this, but you have left me no choice." He turned to Law. "You're not this violent."
"I would be if I thought you had done something to one of my brothers."
Kendrick rubbed his chin. "True. I'd level whole cities for Keelan."
"Ah, Kendrick, what did you do to my brothers?" Law asked.
"They're just frozen for the moment so I can divulge certain facts to them without worrying about one of them breaking my jaw."
"You do know that may still happen, right?"
Thane grunted his agreement.
Kendrick shrugged. "At least this way, I can have my say, but first." He whispered again and Izzy felt the air around them flex and her ears popped.
"What was that?" she asked.
Kendrick turned to her. "My apologies, you must be new to our world. What I just cast was a soundproofing spell, so what I tell our angry friends here stays amongst us."
Izzy pointed to her chest. "Even me?"
Kendrick gave her a dazzling smile. "Let's see. According to Meryn, you are Oron's mate. Oron is Darian's brother. Darian is mated to Amelia. Amelia is Meryn's big sister-cousin. Meryn adopted my cousins, so that practically makes you family."
"What!" Meryn screeched.
Kendrick looked at the group around the table, everyone wore equally stunned expressions. "Oh yeah, we forgot to mention that."
Micah chuckled. "I got him with that one."
Serenity punched her mate in the thigh. "How could you not tell me?"
Micah rubbed his leg. "That hurt."
Zach laughed at his brother-in-law's pain. "Get him, Seri."
Serenity crossed her arms over her chest. "Any other secrets?"
"I ate your stash of Marjoram's cookies before we left," Micah confessed.
Meryn threw a scone at him. "Off topic." She glared at Kendrick. "Do they know?"
Kendrick shook his head. "I was going to tell them here, where's it's safer, but as you know, they stayed behind."
Meryn's expression became thoughtful. "Cristo said something like that. That he could only tell me in the safety of Éire Danu, what does that mean?"