_Author’s POV_
The Varkos mansion had not been a peaceful house for a long time.
It had the specific atmosphere of a place where two people were coexisting in the same rooms without actually being in the same place. Kaelen and Virella had made the place unbearable to live in.
Kaelen now spent most of the morning in his study.
He told himself he was working. There were pack matters that needed attention, correspondence that had been sitting for days, the ongoing financial situation that required decisions he had been postponing because the decisions were all bad and choosing between bad options required an energy he didn’t currently have.
He stared at the desk and thought about none of those things.
He thought about the competition footage he had watched three times sinc
