RHEA
Bits clicked in place as I looked at Garrett.
The blackmail messages. The conspiracy. The push for the Culling Trial. All of it coordinated by someone who thought I was inherently unworthy. Who viewed me as a pollutant of pure breed?
And he’d now sealed us off neatly. If he had attempted to shield me, Darius would have given his own life.
I could see Darius thinking, looking for an out, a way to resist. His intellect absorbing pack law, the direction Garrett had missed.
But Garrett has been plotting this for years. He was familiar with pack law backwards and forwards. He'd covered every angle.
Monica was standing next to Garrett, her look miserable and resigned. She looked into my eyes for a moment, and I saw honest fear. Whatever Garrett had on her, it was a mighty talon that c
