Arianna
“Let the challenge begin.”
Vance’s voice echoed through the council chamber, but I barely heard him.
My attention was locked on the document sitting in front of my father.
The neutrality agreement.
The same agreement Elias had stolen from Gold Pack before turning up dead with his neck broken.
My father rested one hand beside it like he’d already won.
Of course he did.
He’d spent my entire life teaching me that evidence didn’t have to tell the truth.
It only had to tell the story first.
Vance addressed the council.
“The current Head alleges that First Heir Arianna knowingly entered Gold Pack territory, formed an alliance with its leadership, and encouraged interference in an internal shapeshifter succession matter.”
A councilwoman I recognized from the Northern House loo
