Darius's POVMy study door opened, no knock of course, and Beta Marcus slunk in like one serving a wounded predator."Alpha," he whispered, "You've been inside here for eighteen hours. The pack is wanting you for the night brief."“Get rid of it,” I said, my eyes still on the papers. “I’m hardly in the mental state to give you all my thoughts.”I turned my eyes up to him at last, this man who had been loyal to my family for over thirty years. "Did you know, Marcus? Did you have a sense of what was happening to her?”For a long moment he was silent, his weathered face engaged in the tussle.“I had a feeling something wasn’t quite there,” he finally confessed. “The case against Miss Lily was too neat, neatly played towards what would help the Luna-to-be most. But I didn't have any evidence and calling the future Luna out on that would be...""Would have been what? Honorable? Brave? The right thing to do?"“That would have been career suicide,” he added bluntly. “And I’ve got a family to
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