Sienna’s Truth
The truth arrived without ceremony.
It came in the form of a recorded statement, delivered under formal inter-pack protocol three days after Lila’s visit to the Blackwood mansion. Marcus Blackwood had ordered a full internal review of the night the mate bond broke. What the review produced was turned over to Silver Ridge as part of the ongoing closure between the territories—copies of witness accounts, a medical report on the substance found in Kane’s system, and a signed admission from Sienna that had clearly been extracted under pressure rather than offered freely.
Ronan received the packet in the study. He read the summary first, then the attached documents, then looked up at Lila with an expression that was carefully controlled.
“You need to see this,” he said. “All
