GIDEON'S POVWe met in the suite that evening.The work was gone. The binding had dissolved. That low-level tension that had been sitting in the air since Seraphine set the counter-ward finally lifted, like someone had cracked a window and let the static out. The suite felt like itself again, only better. Lighter. Like the room had been holding its breath for weeks and could finally exhale.Six of us. Tanya, Max, Seraphine, Liam, and I. And Elias, whom Tanya had called after everything in the reading room because she’d warned him to be careful for the next six days, and then those six days had shrunk into one afternoon. She figured he deserved to know the immediate danger had passed. He sat on the window bench, quiet and steady like always, saying almost nothing but somehow making the whole room feel more solid just by being there.The dissolution was finished. The rogue attacks were something else entirely. Kenneth, my mother, the Pack Investigations case, the High Council inquiry—no
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