Two days later. The Silver Moon territory. The Elders' Council Chamber. Torches flickered along the circular stone walls, casting long shadows across the room. Seven Elders sat on a raised dais. Damian occupied the central throne. Victoria stood in the center of the hall, her wrists bound in moonstone cuffs specifically forged to suppress a wolf's shifting ability. The chain of evidence had been pieced together in less than forty-eight hours. Elliot had provided the surviving records from Shatter Creek—the black-market source of the wolfsbane aphrodisiac, the digital trail of my altered medical records, and the payment logs for the rogue mercenaries hired to hunt down a fleeing Omega five years ago. Hunt down. That record was pulled straight from Victoria's private safe. She hadn't

