SERA

The next morning, I planted a recording device in Kael's office.

I wasn't proud of it. Spying on my own husband's workspace felt like the kind of thing Cora would do, and the comparison made my skin crawl. But Cora had been in that office unescorted, which meant she'd either planted something or taken something, and I needed to know which.

The device was small — a standard audio recorder, the kind Marcus used for training reviews — tucked between the books on the shelf behind the desk, ...