Adrian’s POV
Everything was spiraling today like someone had spent months planning the perfect ambush and I was the i***t walking straight into the trap.
This meeting? It wasn’t even supposed to happen today.
Levi never breathed a word about the convoys arriving early. I’d been in the study going over border reports with Thomas, still riding the high of putting Caroline and her little spectacle in their place, when one of my men burst in and said the vampire delegation had rolled up at the gates like they owned the damn place.
Levi had arranged it behind my back to perhaps make me look incapable.
Oh, the things I had lined up for him after this…public humiliation so creative he’d be begging for exile.
But then Kira walked in wearing her own humiliation like armor, chin high, eyes bl
