Chapter Seventeen — *One Hour*
The Outer Council met in Rhen's largest building.
It was not a grand space. No marble. No expensive chairs. No wolves in designer clothes sitting in the front rows the way Ironveil's gatherings always looked.
Just a long room. Stone walls. A curved table at the front with seven people sitting behind it. Seven Alphas from seven different packs looking at the evidence on the device in front of them with expressions that ranged from grim to furious.
Mara sat between Caius and Zane in the second row.
She had changed into clean clothes that Rhen's people had provided. Dark. Simple. Nothing like a grey dress.
Zane had noticed.
He had not said anything. He had just looked at her for one moment in the corridor before they came in and his expression had done so
