This pack was special. “Thank you,” I said again. He didn’t acknowledge me this time, and together in silence we watched the children. Gideon’s POV In my office, my Beta, Peter, and I sat around my desk, each with a pile of paperwork in front of us. These were Darius’s past business dealings that we were meticulously combing through, searching for any instance of wrongdoing or indication that he could have been involved with Leo’s contract. We’d spent hours search already, before my Beta finally spotted something and moved a file in front of me. It was a collection of invoices, and the letterhead indicated they were all from the same apothecary. “That code there,” my Beta said, pointing toward the items that had been purchased. “That’s the code for wolfsbane.” I checked the dates on

