CHAPTER 21. THE FORMAL REVIEW
TORIN
The council chamber was fuller than it had been in years when Halden's formal review convened, every ranking member present along with several senior wolves who rarely bothered attending anything short of a funeral or a war declaration. I understood why the moment I walked in and felt the room's attention split, not evenly, between the man standing accused at the center of it and the nephew who had been the one to bring him down. The chamber itself, usually half empty for routine business, had extra chairs brought in along the back wall, and even those were filled by the time Petra called the session to order.
Two decades of documented service to this club, said Aldric, one of the old guard my father had trusted personally, rising before the formal pr
