SERA

I didn't tell him.

I walked back to the pack house with the photograph's image seared into my brain and the weight of what I'd learned sitting on my chest like a stone, and I went straight to my room and showered and came downstairs and ate breakfast three seats away from Kael and didn't say a word about any of it.

He noticed. Not immediately he was preoccupied with Elder correspondence from the marking extension, frowning at formal letters over his coffee but by lunch he'd registered the ...