The Professor's Mate Clause
"My name is Bram. My father died in the border conflict your parents' Council did nothing to prevent, back before they decided isolation was inconvenient for their precious treaty."
"I'm sorry for your loss," I say, and I mean it, even though I can already tell it won't land the way I want it to.
"Save your sympathy. I don't want it from a wolf." He steps closer, and my security detail tenses behind me, but he doesn't touch me, just crowds the space enough to make his point. "You think you can walk in here, smile at the King, and undo twenty years of history? You're not the first Council pet to try."
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