Ellie POV
The news should not have surprised me. My trust had been tested and taken advantage of so many times at this point. I should have expected that someone as stubborn and determined as Kieran would play dirty.
I shouldn’t have been surprised.
And yet, I was.
Claire had seemed like such an honest person. I’d trusted her deeply. Learning that she was reporting back to Kieran from the start was disappointing.
I stood at the window of the sitting room with my arms folded tight across my chest, staring out over Silver Fang’s inner courtyard while Nolan spoke quietly behind me. The guards below moved in their usual patterns, steady and alert, nothing outwardly changed. Life continuing as if nothing had shifted.
But something had.
“Kieran had eyes on you in Moonstone,” Nolan said
