Selene’s POV
I find Bowen in the small library off the council chamber, the room he favors when he wants to think without anyone watching him do it. He is sitting near the window with a book open on his lap that I do not think he is reading, and when I come in he looks up and does not look surprised.
“Halsey spoke to you,” he says.
“She told me there are things about the letter I do not know.” I close the door behind me. “I want to hear them from you. Now. Before she does.”
He sets the book aside, slowly, the way he does everything. “Sit down, Selene.”
“I would rather stand.”
He nods, accepting that, and folds his hands the way he always does when he is about to say something that requires care. “What I told you in the kitchen was true. Every word of it. I wrote to Caden because I be
