RONAN'S POV

I didn't sleep that night.

Instead, I sat at my desk with my laptop, searching through legal databases and government websites. Bonding laws. Omega protection statutes. Medical privacy rights. Everything I could find.

Elias was asleep on my bed. Finally. He'd fought it for hours, too anxious to rest. But exhaustion won eventually.

I had to find something. Some legal protection we could use. Some way to block Mercer's investigation before it destroyed everything.

The first few ...