Chapter 11
A week later, I could cross the hearing room with a cane.
I still chose the chair.
Nora approved of that so loudly she didn't have to say anything.
The royal hearing was held in Ironclad's council chamber, but the three adjudicators at the front were Lycan cou
Chapter 12
At moonrise, Adrian stopped being Alpha.
Nothing shook. No thunder rolled over Ironclad. I only felt the pack pressure change, a weight I'd lived under so long I had mistaken it for weather.
The next morning he came to the east guest wing alone—no guards, no Gamma, no Alpha tone.
Chapter 13
Four months later, a woman sat across from my desk twisting a paper bracelet around her wrist.
"He never hit me," she said.
I had learned that sentence usually meant someone had already told her she needed a worse one.
I opened a fresh page. "Then we don't write that



