Elena stepped back first.
Not because she wanted to. But because thirty pairs of eyes were suddenly very interested in pretending they hadn't just watched an Alpha touch her face on her ex-husband's porch, and some old, practical part of her still knew how to read a room even when the rest of her was reeling.
"That clause is void the second it's contested," Scott said, recovering fast, his voice climbing back into the register he used for pack business. "Nobody's invoked it, and Nobody's filed it with the council. It doesn't mean anything until someone does."
"Then why does it exist at all," Elena said, "if it's nothing?"
Scott didn't answer that.
"Because somebody wanted it to matter someday," Rohan said quietly. "Somebody who understood exactly what would happen to two packs if thei
