Moonlight passed through a crystal set into the High Court’s vaulted ceiling and fell across the marble floor. Cold columns lined both sides of the chamber.
The rows of Alphas stayed silent as I took my seat at the petitioner’s table.
I saw Caleb and Connor for the first time in months. Their formal clothes hung loose on them.
Caleb’s hands were wrapped in stiff bandages, and Connor kept rubbing the wrist he had used to pin me down.
They used to fill any room they entered. In the respondents’ dock, both kept their shoulders folded and their eyes on me.
I checked the evidence list in front of me and waited for the hearing to begin.
The oak doors opened for Darius. He took the witness seat as Alpha of a neighboring sovereign territory and the wolf who had given me protection.
He had c
