Elena did not go to Logan that night as she had intended.
Instead, Adrian's revelation sent her directly back to the archive, Senna's earlier warning about her mother's dream and the true weight of the forgotten king's title settling over her with renewed urgency. If Damon Lustblood feared a bonded, grounded Logan enough to send his own son across kingdoms to prevent exactly that outcome, she needed to understand precisely what legal and territorial consequence such a bond might actually produce.
She worked through the night, pulling records concerning both the Voss succession laws and whatever fragments remained describing the ancient Ashwood sovereignty Kira had revealed weeks earlier. By dawn, exhausted but increasingly alarmed, she had assembled enough pieces to understand something
