Breaking Point
The final conversation with Kane did not arrive through formal channels or sealed letters carrying the weight of inter-pack law. It came quietly, three days after Sienna’s documented confession had been delivered to Silver Ridge and the full truth of that night had settled into the private rooms of the pack house like a low, persistent weather system. A single-line message reached Ronan through the border patrol just after midday: Kane Blackwood requested one last meeting with Lila on the neutral ground. No mediators. No residual legal claim attached. He would come alone. He would leave when she told him to leave. He asked only that she hear him once, without the structure of formal challenge around every sentence.
Ronan brought the request to her in the study without comm
