"Tyler's going to know by now."
"Yes."
"That the injunction failed. That the ceremony went through. That he has no legal ground left."
"Yes."
"So what does he do."
"What men like Tyler always do when they run out of legal options." Mason didn't look up from the map spread across the hotel table. "They stop using them."
I sat down on the edge of the bed and looked at the ceiling for a moment.
The hotel was small and unremarkable and exactly the kind of place nobody looked for anyone in. Owen had found it forty minutes outside the Council building. Cash payment. Fake name. Two rooms on the top floor with a view of the car park and the kind of quiet that only exists in places where nobody expects anything significant to happen.
Significant things kept happening anyway.
"Harper."
"Hm
