“Her father’s bloodline,” he said. “Lance Rosewood. Beta to Alpha Jax.” He paused. “Or so the official record states.”
“And unofficially?”
“Lance Rosewood’s matrilineal line traces back to one of the original seven founding bloodlines.” Dorian’s voice was even. Precise. The voice of someone delivering information they had been sitting with for a long time. “A line that was formally removed from the official archive approximately two hundred years ago by council order.”
I looked at the document.
“The notation,” Dorian continued, “reads: suppressed dominant. matrilineal. dormant – condition: unmated.” He met my eyes. “The dormancy condition activates through a mate bond. With a sufficiently dominant Alpha.”
The room was very quiet.
“She’s not a packless Beta,” I said slowly.
“She is,
