Ava's POV
Victor finally looked at me.
His eyes were calm. “Both the Shelton family and the Grand Council are throwing him a welcome party next week,” he said evenly.
Then he leaned back in his seat.
“If you don’t believe me… ask your friend, Nora.”
The moment Victor mentioned Nora, I hesitated.
My wolf shifted uneasily inside me, her ears twitching at the sound of my friend’s name. For a second, the anger boiling in my chest lost its rhythm.
I huffed and tossed the iPad back at him.
“Victor,” I snapped, “don’t you have any heart?”
The tablet landed neatly in his hands. Victor glanced at me, his gaze sharp and cool, like the edge of a blade.
“You used sixty thousand dollars of mine to cover James’s son’s treatment,” he said calmly. “How exactly does that fit with your idea of ‘he
