I try not to grin coyly at Jordan at breakfast the next morning.

Fortunately, we’re joined by members of the court. Stewart Sloan, the Beta, Phaedra Cascadia, the pack healer and royal physician, and the Alphas’ assistant and personal secretary, Natasha Lynnwood. They’ve all heard about us nabbing the rogue. The whole palace and the city are buzzing with it.

Phaedra is quiet, like Stewart and Kent, and dresses in a long blue-and-white healer’s robe with a ...