The working session on coordinated defense protocols opened the second morning and I took my seat in the delegation arrangement two positions from Killian and I kept my notebook open and my attention on the room and I watched Alpha Rowan confirm everything that my wolf had registered at the reception the previous day.He was watching me again. Not with the general attention that senior wolves directed at new faces in the alliance’s operational picture, not the professional assessment of someone cataloguing the capabilities present in the room. He was watching me with the consistency of someone who had already made a decision and was monitoring the subject of that decision, and when I contributed to the discussion, which I did twice in the session’s first hour with the carefully measured contributions that were appropriate to my role, he responded not to what I had said but to me.He directed his response toward me personally each time, repositioning my contribution as an exchange betw
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