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in front of Malian. “You have no rights to dig into my life. What if I did a little digging into your life? What the hell would I find there?”
    “I’m sure that you’d be surprised by what you found.” Rythen nearly burst out laughing at Aaron. “But that’s not the issue here. We’re here to find out what you’ve been up to. And by the way, your wife was not happy to find these pictures. She is right now making sure that all your funding is cut off too. Along with a few other things.”
    Malian looked around the room , and Rythen could almost hear the man’s mind working to figure this out. When the door behind him opened, Rythen stood up as Lizzy walked in. Behind her were three men dressed in suits. All of them looked to be armed.
    “Hello , Malian my boy. You’ve been very naughty. It’s a good thing my husband is in charge of this little parlay or you’d be in a great deal more shit than you already are. Oh, and I’m so glad you appointed me to the task force for the police. I bet you never thought…what did he call me, Mathew?”
    “He said you were an airhead and that you didn’t have as much brain power in one of your fingers as he did in his entire body.” He grinned at his mother. “I guess he messed up your fingers with your brains.”
    Rythen was surprised by the information and was equally surprised that Logan had done nothing about it. Had it been his mate, he would have killed the man. But Malian stood up and when he did, the three men pulled their weapons.
    “I said that in my office to my brother. There is no way you could have heard that.” Mathew clicked on a couple of keys and an office with Malian and another man showed on the wall. The entire conversation about hiring Lizzy as their scapegoat was caught on record, and Rythen couldn’t have been more impressed. He had missed a great deal more than he’d thought by being away.
    The three men stepped forward and helped Malian to stand. “Malian Tallis , you’re under arrest for embezzlement as well as fraud.” Rythen watched as the man was dragged from the room screaming about his rights. Mathew stood to leave too, and Rythen stopped him.
    “You helped them with this?” He nodded. “I’m very impressed. You were very helpful to them, and you made a very good case against him.”
    He wasn’t sure what the boy was going to say. Mathew hesitated for a long while before he looked up at someone behind him. Rythen had a feeling it was his stepmother. When he looked back down at him, Rythen smiled.
    “That’s what family does. We help each other. And if you think I’m going to sit on my butt and watch you take away my grams just because you think you’re all that, you’re in for a big surprise. I’m not going to let you.”
    “There is no stopping what is happening, young man. Some things just are.” Rythen turned to see Aaron behind him and stood up. “You should teach him that things don’t always turn out the way you want them. There are laws.”
    “He knows about laws governing things more than I would bet you do. But what you don’t understand is that he loves her. And that, my good man, will conquer all.” Aaron put out his hand, and Mathew went to him. “Now, if you’ll give me one minute, I’m going to say good-bye to my grandson. He has homework to do.”
    When the two of them left, Rythen sat down. This had to be the most stubborn family he’d ever encountered. And over the years, he’d seen a lot of them…just not humans, and he wondered if they were all like this or if the people in this family were particularly stubborn. They were a different breed altogether, this house of Aaron. Rythen started to sit when the room tightened and he waited for whoever was entering the room to come. He was surprised to see Morriganna the witch.
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    Elizabeth moved along the passageway toward where she’d been told. She wanted to see…no, that wasn’t right. She needed to see Phillip. Now. Right now. When she got