Chapter 200

Alpha Jason’s Office

Perrin

I didn’t think there’d be enough time in the world to process what my father had shared over the last half hour. Some of it we knew, some of it made other things suddenly snap into place, and the rest? Well. It was altogether unsettling.

Mistra sat whitefaced in the corner of the office, her face stony, refusing to look at Ethan. My step-mother maintained a quiet composure at her usual place on the sofa while my father spoke. Jaz for some reason was here, looming silently in the back of the office by the door. I could tell from her body language that she was uncomfortable; an unusual emotion for her to showcase so openly. And Mark stood behind my father as he delivered the true story behind Ethan’s treatment. Small components of his story seemed to fit like puzzle pieces into the last few months, s