Harold Looking at the men hidden in the large barn I own, I smile as the final hour grows near. Before I was suspended for six days from the council, Rose’s maid had come to me with news of the plan Rose had formed with the Alpha of Snarling Lox. She’d also produced a letter from my granddaughter that had been snuck to her before Rose was moved from the dungeons to the south tower. Inside the letter were details about Ember was Kendrik Lox’s first mate that he’d rejected, and how he’d beaten her and banished her after the rejection in hopes that she would die as a rogue in no man’s land. Instead, that whelp Zaid had found her, rescued her, and helped her heal, all because that cursed mate bond snapped into place. I sought out Kendrik Lox, intending to learn why he was looking for Ember

