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business. Afterward he needed to talk to Connor about the possible vampire-blood-trafficking bullshit.
    Connor shot an annoyed look at Brianna, who shrugged. “I’m going to infiltrate the APL again and your wolf friends don’t like it.”
    Wolf friends?
Despite the tension humming through him, Jayce had to resist smiling. Brianna was part of the Fianna, legendary fae warriors from Ireland that most people thought were complete myth, and as far as he knew, they usually stayed with their own kind. Her presence here was abnormal, but they could use her, even if she didn’t understand pack laws. “So what’s the problem?” He directed his question to Connor.
    “I’m not sending anyone in to work undercover with those assholes, especially a female.” Connor’s deep voice was resolute as he looked at Brianna.
    The blonde simply gave Connor what Jayce considered a patronizing smile. “My brethren disagree. I appreciate you giving me shelter for the time being, but I don’t
need
it. In fact, if this is representative of your pack’s attitude toward
teamwork
, I am not interested.” She rose slowly, the action almost regal, as if she were addressing peasants.
    Connor growled low in his throat. “Sit.”
    The fae female might not have agreed with Connor, but there was a lot of power behind that one word. She did as he told her.
    Before anyone else could speak, Jayce stood. Even if Connor had issues with her involvement, it was going to happen. Most supernatural beings minded their own business and didn’t interact much with other supernaturals. Hell, a hundred years ago it wasn’t uncommon for vicious battles to occur between shifters and the fae. Or the fae and vampires. Or any number of combinations. When supernatural beings wanted something like land, they usually took it or died trying. Strength mattered to all of them and civility was a fairly new concept. Over the past forty years there had been a substantial decrease in supernatural warfare, though, partially because shifters formed official councils all over the world and were better at communicating now. Then, as of twenty years ago, they’d had to start worrying about humans watching them too. And right now they had a common goal: destroy the APL. So while Connor was hesitant, it wasn’t his decision. “The Council wants us working with the Fianna. We both want the same thing, and if she’s comfortable going undercover again, we have no reason to stop her. If it’s because she’s female—”
    “That is not the reason.” Connor’s voice had a deadly edge to it as he straightened, moving into an offensive stance.
    Jayce’s eyes narrowed. “We all saw what she did to Adler.” Using her supernatural gift of harnessing pure energy, Brianna had taken off the head of the human scum who’d ordered the kidnappings of both Liam’s mate, December, and Kat. As far as Jayce knew, Adler hadn’t been the one to torture Kat, but he’d been complicit. And he’d been working on someone’s orders. Right now Jayce
needed
to find out who’d given those orders. Because whoever it was was a dead man walking. “She can hold her own against any of them.”
    Something they all knew. Jayce just felt Connor needed a little reminder. Brianna had been working undercover with the APL for months, controlling Adler’s sick mind with a lot of psychic energy, even though it had kept her in a constant weak state. She’d been willing to sacrifice herself to save Kat. Killing Adler had expended so much of Brianna’s energy that she’d passed out and could have been killed by other APL members if not for the intervention of Connor’s pack. For that, Jayce would stand by the woman for pretty much anything.
    “We don’t know that she hasn’t been compromised and we need to keep a low profile. For the good of the pack,” Connor said.
    “Everyone who knew of her involvement with us is dead,” Liam interjected, earning him an annoyed glance from his older