~Caden's POV~
Conrad's message arrives encrypted, routed through the usual private channel rather than anything that might pass through Pack Hall's general correspondence, and Caden reads it standing at his desk rather than sitting, the way he has come to read most reports concerning Vivienne over these past months, as though remaining upright somehow keeps him better positioned to absorb whatever comes next.
Vivienne has lodged a formal complaint with the Inter-Pack Council.
He reads the summary twice before the shape of it fully settles. She claims, through a filing made under her own name and apparently with legal counsel paid for by resources Conrad has not yet traced, that Selene concealed her Silverborn bloodline during the original mate presentation three years ago, and that this
