CHAPTER 49
RHEA
Midnight and I rode back to the Vipers' compound feeling wrung out, body and soul.
The hallways were quiet. Most of the crew was asleep. From the commons area, I could hear the faint rattle of a television, someone’s late-night movie playing softly.
I visited Rowan first, and he slept serenely curled up in Cassie's guest room, oblivious to the wars being waged over him.
Cassie discovered me there, brought coffee for me without asking if I wanted it. She had a sixth sense of when people needed something to comfort them.
We sat in silence, pleasantly silent, until she finally looked at me and said, “So? How bad?"
I told her everything. The council meeting. Darius's invocation of Alpha Right. His pronouncement that he would choose me over the pack. The razor-close vote
