The complication arrived three weeks before the wedding, delivered to Sebastian's office through a channel considerably more official than Genevieve's whispered board proposal had been — a formal letter from Aldric's attorney, addressed to the full board, raising what it described as "governance concerns" regarding the historical review committee's authority and, buried in its fourth paragraph, a pointed question about whether Sebastian's personal relationship with a Calloway descendant constituted a conflict of interest sufficient to require his recusal from any future restitution decisions.
"He's not attacking the wedding directly," Priya Nasser explained, laying the letter out across Sebastian's desk with the same careful precision she'd brought to the settlement negotiations months ea
