Sebastian's POV
I told myself it was the right call.
I had been telling myself that since Kael came to me the previous afternoon with the news about the tribunal. Three days. The elders were moving on it with a speed that told me Claire's visit to Doran had landed harder than I had expected. A formal tribunal inside pack grounds meant witnesses and procedures and a ruling I would have very limited ability to overturn without publicly declaring something I was not yet prepared to declare.
If Cassandra was still here when it convened, she would be in the centre of it. Unprotected in all the ways that mattered in pack law.
Sending her away was the only move that bought time.
I knew all of that. Every part of it was logical and sound and correct.
It did not make watching her pack her bag
