"So let me get this straight." Killian Nox stared at the three little vigilantes with an expression that suggested his sanity had just taken another unexpected hit. "You decided to secretly deploy a few bees as security because you believed an attack was coming?"
He still couldn't quite believe the words that had just come out of the Imperial Crown Prince's mouth as the latter summarized everything they'd learned so far.
The Chief of Staff himself sat quietly beside Jax, looking every bit like a parent who'd just been summoned to a particularly troublesome PTA meeting.
As for Xavier, he'd somehow ended up becoming the lead interrogator for this exceedingly unexpected family conference.
After all, among everyone present, he occupied the perfect middle ground between being loved enough that children would willingly listen to him and feared enough that they actually would.
