He found out about the spar from Lyra, because of course he did.
He came to my room that evening without knocking — which was a thing he'd done exactly once before, and I'd decided then that the power dynamic of telling an Alpha to knock on doors in his own compound was not a battle I had the capital for yet. I was sitting cross-legged on the bed with Maren's notes spread around me, studying the diagrams she'd drawn of power frequency and conduit mechanics, and I looked up when the door opened.
He took in the split lip immediately.
"Gregor," I said, before he could speak.
"I know it was Gregor." He came into the room and stood near the window, which was what he did when he wanted to look at something other than me. "Lyra told me."
"Then you know I initiated."
"I know."
"And you know
