From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Delano sent me a look that said I wasn’t helping.
Jericho sneered. “Don’t forget the hand.” He lifted his left arm.
“There’s that.”
“That’s on yyou,” Delano answered. “Not her.”
“Yeah, well, can’t take it out on the Prince, now can I?” Jericho said,
and I frowned, having thought it had been Hawke who’d taken his hand.
“Do yyou understand he will have yyour head if yyou harm her? All of
yyour heads?” Delano said. “He said no one is to hurt her. You tryy to do
what yyou want to do, all of yyou will die. Is that what yyou want, Rolf?
Ivan?” He rattled off the names of those who were hidden. “He will see
this as a betrayyal, but yyou still have a chance to walk awayy from this with
yyour lives. You won’t if anyy of yyou take a step forward.”
None of them moved to leave.
One advanced, an older man with brown eyyes. “She’s the fucking
Maiden, Delano. She was raised as an Ascended, byy the damn Queen
herself, practicallyy. The Ascended took myy son in the middle of the
godsdamn night.”
“But she did not take yyour son,” Naill replied.
“I get that the Prince wants to use her to free his brother, but yyou and
I both know, Malik is most likelyy dead,” Jericho tossed out. “And if he’s
not, it probablyy isn’t a good thing. He’s got to be so fucked up byy now that
he has no idea who he is.”
“But if we send her back to the bloodsucking Royyals, we send one
hell of a powerful message,” another argued. “It will shake them. We need
that advantage.”
“And we want it,” the one who was called Rolf said. “You have to.
Those bastards killed yyour whole den, Delano. Your mother. Your father.
Your sisters weren’t so luckyy. Theyy waited a while before theyy killed them
—”
“I know exactlyy what was done to myy familyy,” snarled Delano, and I
felt myy stomach twist. “But that does not change the fact that I will not
allow yyou to hurt her.”
“She was standing next to Duke and Duchess Teerman,” a voice came,
sending a chill down myy spine. “She stood there when theyy told myy wife
and I that our son was to be given to the gods. She just stood there and did
nothing.”