~Selene's POV~
That evening, with the twins asleep and the south house settled into its now-familiar quiet, Selene spreads the printed copy of Vivienne's complaint across the kitchen table and reads it through twice before she lets herself say a single word about it out loud.
Miriam sits across from her, reading her own copy at the same measured pace, the two of them working through the document the way they have worked through difficult things together since long before any of this began, methodically, without rushing toward a conclusion neither of them has yet earned through careful reading.
The complaint itself is exactly as Caden described it. Vivienne claims Selene fraudulently concealed her Silverborn bloodline during the original mate presentation, that this concealment constitut
