_Rowena's POV_
Four days remained before the Crown ruled on my divorce.
Grandma Alice arrived at Moonreign shortly before noon.
She came in an official Ironvale car, accompanied by a driver and a pack aide. The guards had barely announced her before she swept into the entrance hall, demanding to see me.
Alice was my grandfather's second wife, not my grandmother by blood. She had been young enough to be his daughter when they married, but she had worn the title Grandma for so long that most people had forgotten the distinction.
She had not visited me once in three years.
Yet now her eyes glistened as she took my hands.
"My poor child. I came the moment I learned what was happening." She turned toward Kaelen, who had emerged from his study. "Is this how Moonreign repays the Ashthorne
