“Go on,” Samkiel said, his voice thick and heavy, cutting through the room like a blade. “Threaten my wife and brothers again.” I shifted beneath the overwhelming power in this room, and I wondered just how vicious the brothers would be if they got along. If they could manage to work together, they would release an overwhelming force into the world that none could rival. Nismera knew it, too. It was the reason she so desperately drove wedges between them.

