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~Caden's POV~Rhys finds him in the study on Monday morning with a report that has nothing to do with Isolde, nothing to do with border patrols, nothing to do with any of the crises that have occupied the household's collective attention for the past several months, and Caden reads through it twice before he fully understands what he is actually looking at, the language formal enough that its significance takes a moment to settle properly."The regional council wants to formalize something," Rhys says, standing rather than sitting, the particular posture he takes when he considers a matter significant enough to warrant it, his hands clasped loosely behind his back. "A recognition, effectively, for the pattern documentation Selene assembled. Multiple packs have written in over the past two weeks, not just the four directly affected by Isolde herself, asking that Cresthaven's methodology for identifying and circulating threats of this kind be adopted as a standard practice across the en

~Caden's POV~The regional council accepts the trial terms within a week, their response warmer than Caden expected, and the first request for Selene's direct consultation arrives faster than either of them anticipated, a pack two regions east reporting a pattern they believe closely resembles the one Cresthaven documented and circulated, a newly hired strategist whose references, on closer and more suspicious inspection, do not entirely hold together under scrutiny.Selene is due to leave Thursday, three days, back by Sunday evening according to the travel plan Rhys helped her build, and Caden watches her prepare for it over the intervening days with a complicated mixture of feelings he does not entirely try to sort through before they simply arrive on their own, pride sitting alongside something closer to unease, both of them legitimate, both of them, he has learned across these difficult months, allowed to exist together without one needing to cancel out or diminish the other."I'l

~Caden's POV~The letter from Westmere arrives on a Friday, formal, urgent in tone despite its careful diplomatic language throughout, requesting an emergency joint session regarding the corridor agreement's implementation, specifically the seasonal access timeline that Isolde's original proposal had structured months earlier, before any of them understood what she actually was.Rhys brings it to the study with a frown already firmly in place, setting it down on the desk with more force than the document strictly requires. "Something's shifted on their end, and recently. This isn't the tone of a partner working through routine implementation details together. This is the tone of a pack that genuinely believes something has gone wrong on our side of the arrangement."Caden reads it twice, the specific formal urgency of the letter settling into him with the particular unease of a problem he cannot yet fully see the shape of, though something in his gut is already reaching toward a concl

~Caden's POV~The relief of Monday's clean resolution carries them into a stretch of weeks that feel, for the first time in what seems like a very long while, genuinely uneventful, ordinary in a way Caden finds himself, more than once, almost distrusting simply on principle, waiting quietly for the next consequence to arrive out of nowhere, the specific instinct built by too many recent months of sustained vigilance that has not yet fully learned how to trust genuine quiet when it finally arrives.Selene notices it in him before he ever names it aloud himself."You're bracing," she says, one evening in late February, the two of them settled together in the sitting room with the fire burning low and steady, Wren nineteen weeks along now and, according to Amara's most recent appointment, developing precisely on schedule in every measurable way."I am, I think. I don't entirely know how to properly stop yet, if I'm honest with you.""I know that particular feeling well. I spent the entir

~Caden's POV~He builds the next two weeks around her with the same deliberate, careful attention he has learned, across these past difficult months, to bring to absolutely everything that genuinely matters, and finds, in the slow process of doing it, that properly caring for someone requires an entirely different set of skills than the ones he spent years carefully cultivating as Alpha of this pack.Governance sessions relocate wholesale to the sitting room, Rhys and Vera both bringing the necessary documents directly to her rather than requiring her presence at Pack Hall the way protocol would normally demand, and Caden watches Selene work steadily through the deliberately reduced schedule with a discipline that visibly costs her something each and every time she has to decline a request she would, under ordinary circumstances, have simply handled directly herself without a second thought."You're allowed to be frustrated by all of this," he says, one quiet evening, finding her star