The Alpha Secret Obsession
The woman saw the assignment, and something moved through her expression that Seraphina had no name for — not surprise, not confusion, but the specific look of someone who had believed something impossible and just watched it arrive.
Then the woman turned and walked away quickly, without looking at Seraphina, without speaking, with the determined stride of someone who needed to be somewhere else immediately.
Seraphina watched her go.
"You too?"
She turned. Orion was behind her, hands in his jacket pockets, reading the same line.
"You're in Ashveil as well?" she asked.
"No." He nodded at his own name, three rows up. "Pack Croft. I came to see what everyone's freaking out about." He paused, lo