Right now, Stephanie could feel a headache coming on, magnified by the knowledge that she was probably going to have a huge anxiety attack later.

There was something that needed to be addressed right now.

"Alistaire. Sebastian Shaw's reign as Lord Paramount is nearly over. You realize that, right? Any provisional title you may have been offered by him will, at the very least, have to be reconfirmed by whomever succeeds him.

Who will almost certainly be Selene." Stephanie wasn't privy to all the precise details, but she knew that Alistaire had, at the very least, been forced to cut ties to Selene. She assumed Selene would remember that.

"Do you understand how dangerous things are going to be, Alistaire?"