TANYA'S POVThey held Ginna in the pack's administrative building overnight, in a room Liam told me was usually used for disciplinary hearings rather than anything resembling a cell. By morning, word had already moved through the senior pack ranks the way word always moved through them quietly, efficiently, with none of the campus rumor-mill chaos that had followed the "rogue incident" cover story two weeks earlier.Gideon and I sat in on the preliminary inquiry, not as participants, Liam had been firm about that, but as witnesses, seated against the far wall while two pack investigators I didn't recognize took Ginna through a formal accounting of what she'd done. The tether was gone. I'd checked it through the bond a dozen times since the night before, the way you check a tooth with your tongue after the dentist tells you the cavity's filled, just to be sure the absence was real. It was real. Gideon sat beside me, looking lighter than I'd seen him look since August.Ginna looked sm
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