Chapter 157

Kira

The tour was incredibly boring. Ben was professional and polite, wandering at a pace that Lo could keep up with, without getting breathless and being able to contribute to the conversation. It annoyed me how courteous he was.

Jack spent most of the tour looking around inconspicuously for all of the cameras, finding their hidden reflective lenses in the niches of wood and leather around the Archives. From what I could tell, he’d found twenty-six of thirty. A flashing, toothy smile catches on another camera.

Fine. Twenty-seven.

They were just making the far side of the stacks, near the stairway that led down to the pack Archives, when Sirius became incredibly more interested.

“And what are these?” He asked pointedly, looking at the stairs and the ropes that separated them off from prying visitors.

“Ah. The Royal Archives of the Aperture Pack,” Ben said admiringly. “Home of our pack lineage, royal birth and marriage documents, copies of temple ceremony proceedings, and histori