It started over nothing.
That was the honest version of it — not the version where the fight made sense in retrospect, where the cause was proportionate to the fire it started. The honest version was that Sera was tired and the bond had been running hot for two days from the pregnancy's new developments and Darius had made a decision without telling her and the decision itself was fine, it was genuinely fine, and the way he made it without telling her was the problem.
The decision was about the east wing.
Specifically: he had allocated the east wing's secondary guest rooms to a longer-term configuration. Permanent shelving. A dedicated workspace. The structural changes of a room being converted from temporary to fixed.
For Soran.
Without asking her.
She found out from Gamma Reese, wh
