Chapter 31Jordan POVThe leadership meeting was not supposed to look like a trial.Naturally, it looked like a trial.Not officially. There was no judge, no clerk, no bailiff, and no one had asked me to rise, which I always appreciated. But the old conference hall Kane rented off Mercer property had the same uncomfortable arrangement: people divided into sides, every face guarded, and one man standing at the front with too many people waiting to see if he would bleed.Maddox stood near the windows, away from the head of the table.That was the first thing I noticed.Not because he lacked authority. Maddox could stand in a janitor’s closet and people would still arrange themselves around him like furniture with instincts. But he had deliberately avoided the obvious seat of power. The chair at the head of the table remained empty.Smart.Dangerous, but smart.If he sat there, Tessa could accuse him of clinging to control while under court restriction. If he refused to appear, she could
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