POV: Valkor
I had known since Thursday what Ryder was planning.
I had two people in his inner circle who reported to me when something was worth reporting. Not spies exactly. People who owed me things and understood that information was a currency I accepted. One of them had sent me a message on Thursday afternoon that gave me the shape of what was coming clearly enough to work with.
I spent Thursday night and Friday morning deciding what to do.
Part of me understood why he was doing it. Not excused it. Understood it. He was watching his father come back to a pack he had been absent from for years and immediately begin to dismantle everything Natalie and Ryder had built in his absence. He was watching a woman he had dismissed become someone his father spoke about with approval. He was
