The next morning, Diana arrived at Ashbourne headquarters very early. The slap from Crown Ember had been almost completely concealed beneath makeup, but the humiliation was nowhere near as easy to erase as the red mark on her face. She sat in her office with several younger members of the family branches close to her, recounting what had happened the night before in an entirely different way: Zeyan had called in an old favor, so Gavin Holt let him into the Sky Garden, then deliberately stood by while the restaurant manager made things difficult for her. The part where Gavin had warned her before she tried to strike a guest was omitted entirely.
The more Diana talked, the more her anger returned, especially whenever she remembered how gently Gavin had treated a Rogue without a Pack. One of
