Gabriel's POV
The report from my informants came through late that afternoon.
They'd crossed back into Moonspire territory an hour earlier and they had waited for my signal instead of pushing for immediate contact. That told me enough before I even opened the report to read the contents.
If I'd wanted my men in front of me straight away, I could have called them the moment that they returned, but I didn't. I scheduled the meeting for later, kept it contained, and made sure that no one noticed anything out of the ordinary. This wasn't about scrambling around blindly for answers. It was about confirming responsibility before anything even began to move publicly.
By the time they had arrived, the meeting room was already prepared. I had made sure that it was private and access w
