Around the spacious living room, the rest of her husbands sat or stood in a wide circle. No shouting. No immediate blood feud. Instead, a profound, heavy realization had settled over the space like concrete poured into open air. The raw display of Dimitri's new power had left no room for argument. The hierarchy of the 110-strong combined Snow and Leaf Team had just permanently shattered and rebuilt itself in a matter of seconds.
Felicity pressed her cheek against the solid wall of Dimitri's chest, her fennec fox ears swivelling to track the breathing patterns of every man in the room. She could feel the shift in her bones, in the way the air pressure changed, in the way even the floorboards seemed to groan differently under the weight of a new order.
