Chapter 13
The royal tribunal chamber was smaller than Blackthorn's banquet hall. That surprised me. I had imagined justice needing more space. It didn't. It needed records. Three judges sat behind a low dark bench. No throne. No Alpha chair. No place for anyone to
Chapter 14
Three weeks after the tribunal, the first person to walk into my office was not an Alpha. She was an Omega seamstress from a pack I had never visited. She stood in the doorway holding a folded punishment notice with both hands.
"I was told this is where I come if there
Chapter 15
Six months later, the floorboard hung on a wall. Not in a museum. Not in the palace. In the waiting room of the Royal Rank-Abuse Petition Office. I had argued against it for three weeks. Evander wanted it protected behind glass. Rhys wanted it kept in the royal arch



