POV: Kaelira
Dorian requesting an urgent audience at this hour with Ronan's name on the list of two men who could have walked through Cormac's locked door was either the worst possible timing or something deliberate, and I sat across from Ronan watching him decide which one it was.
"Send him in," Ronan said to the guard.
The guard left and Ronan looked at me, "Stay."
I was not planning to move.
Dorian came through the door a minute later, broad and quiet as always, his expression carrying the particular controlled tension of someone delivering news they did not want to carry, and he stopped in the middle of the study and looked at Ronan directly.
"I need to tell you something before you hear it from anyone else," he said.
"Then tell me.”.
"The guard rotation last night," Dorian sai
