EMBER'S POV
Nathaniel's jaw tightens. "If the council rules in Gale's favor, he has legal grounds to demand your return. Physically. The council can compel it—they have enforcement mechanisms that even Knox would have trouble circumventing, especially if it's a formal ruling. You'd be back in Shadowmoon Pack territory as Gale's legal mate, and there might be no room for divorce."
My hands start to shake.
Back to Gale. Back to that house that smells like expensive furniture and despair.
Back to watching him leave in the middle of the night to meet Logan, back to feeling myself shrink smaller with each passing day until there's nothing left of me but a shell that knows how to smile on command.
"That's not happening." Knox's voice is brutal ice. "Run through their evidence. All of it."
