Mabella's POVYou gave him an escape route,” Renner said as soon as he walked beside me in the hallway outside the council chamber. His voice was low, measured.“I did,” I answered.“Why?” he asked, not letting up. “After everything. The voicemail. The letters. Cael. All of it.” He paused. “You could have left the provision and watched fourteen packs come down on him. He’d have lost everything.”“I know,” I said.“So, why?”I kept walking.“If I ruin him, the Veron pack falls with him,” I said. “There are three thousand people there—none of them had any say in what Kiran Voss did.” I glanced at Renner as we kept moving. “The mandate protects territory. That means all of it, even the parts that were turned against me.”Renner went quiet.“That’s either very wise, or very soft,” he said, watching me.“Neither,” I told him. “It’s practical. Having a destabilized Veron pack at our border is a bigger headache in the long run than a defeated rival under a cooperation agreement.”Renner stud
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