The Bloodline Summit

CALLA'S POV

Cora Hastings arrived the following morning and was exactly what Lucian's brief history of her had suggested: the patience of someone who has played a long game and is comfortable with long games, layered over the kind of authority that doesn't announce itself because it doesn't need to.

She looked at me when she stepped off the elevator. Not the way some people looked at me now — sear