Elara's POV
I hadn't expected Orion's temper to hold up this well. Even when I snapped at him more than once, he swallowed his pride and let me have my way, none of the usual push-back I expected from him. It didn't soften me, though. I stayed because I was curious. That was all.
Five minutes later, a guard brought Celeste in, wrists and ankles bound in silver.
"The prisoner has been injected with a wolf-suppressant," Officer Kade said, addressing us both, his tone rehearsed from a hundred prior visits. "She's lost all capacity to attack. You can proceed safely." He glanced at the clock on the wall, checking it against his own watch out of habit. "Your visit is limited to twenty minutes. If anything either of you says makes her uncomfortable, she can press the button on the table and re
