Vivienne’s message, when Garrick finally showed it to June in full, contained no threat at all — which somehow made it worse than if it had. Just four words, cold and patient: I’ve been expecting you.
“She’s not rushing,” Odile said grimly, once we’d all absorbed it. “Callum was patient by training. Vivienne sounds patient by temperament, which is considerably more dangerous. She’s not going to make the mistakes he made — the drone, the leaked photos, the public council session. She’s going to wait until she’s certain of the outcome before she moves at all.”
“Then we don’t give her time to be certain,” Ronan said, and within two days, June’s shelter had been carefully, methodically relocated — the two animals too fragile to travel handed off to a wildlife rehabilitation network Garrick v
