_Alaric’s POV_
My assistant also my beta, Reid, brought the report at seven in the morning, which was when he always brought things he considered time-sensitive and which I had learned over 7 years of working together meant something had happened that he thought I needed to know before I heard it from someone else.
He set a tablet on my desk and I read it.
The scene at the Ashthorne gate. Maelis of Moonreign Pack and the Moonreign pack members were visible on the screen.
Rowena coming down the front steps and addressing the assembled group with the specific composed clarity that I had, over the years, come to think of as one of the most quietly remarkable things about her.
The subsequent visit from Kaelen.
The entrance hall.
The seal breaking.
That last part had c
