_Alaric’s POV_
I watched her leave the room and then I looked at the tablet.
I picked it up and read Kaelen’s statement in full again.
I had skimmed it before Rowena came to look over my shoulder. Now I read every word of it carefully.
Kaelen had given the statement to three outlets simultaneously. All regional, all with decent reach, all with comment sections that had been running hot since the early hours of the morning. He had framed it carefully, staying just inside the lines of what could be called political commentary rather than personal attack, but the intention was clear enough that the lines didn’t matter much.
He was trying to make me look irresponsible.
And he was trying to make Rowena look like the reason for the irresponsibility.
I put the tablet face d
