NORA I'm in my room going through the files Damon dropped off when the knock comes. Alpha Raphael. He stands at the doorway with that uneasy expression he always has. It's always old. Unreadable. His eyes move around the room briefly and then settle on me. "Can I come in?" he asks. "Yes," I say. He walks in and stands near the window. Like he always does, whenever he enters my room. I go back to the files on the desk and wait. "Iris spoke to you at breakfast," he says. His voice was calm, collected and not as icy as it was before. I look up at him. "Yes." "I heard what she said." I put the files down. "Who told you?" "It doesn't matter," he says. His voice is calm. "It won't happen again." "I handled it," I say. "I know you did." "Then there's nothing else to discuss,

