Damon’s POV
Ethan didn't sleep that night. He told himself it was the investigation keeping him up, but if he was honest, it was the look on Damon's face in the courtyard — the moment his Alpha realized he might have destroyed an innocent woman's life over a lie.
He spread the old reports across his desk again, the ones Selena had presented eight months ago, back when the topic of Aria's bloodline first came up in a minor council discussion nobody had taken seriously at the time. He'd read them a dozen times already. He read them once more anyway, looking for anything he might have missed.
The citation at the bottom of the second page still bothered him. Compiled from northern territory archive records, verified by outside correspondent. No name. No pack seal. Nothing that would hold u
