Mira’s POV
For the first few moments, Councilman Baylor was speechless.
The weight of my question hung in the air, suffocating, as every eye in the room turned to him.
Even the other councilmen stared at him expectantly.
I knew it.
They were thinking the same thing I was—that Baylor had been subtly pushing them to ignore the prisoners’ deaths. That he was trying too hard to make them focus on something else.
Finally, he cleared his throat, adjusting his robes as if shaking off the tension. “I am simply suggesting what is best for all of us,” he said smoothly. “If we pursue this investigation and it somehow leads to other Lycan Kings, it could result in war. And I think we can all agree—Blackwood does not need a war right now.”
A few murmurs rippled through the hall.
He was trying t
