Three weeks after the tribunal, the first person to walk into my office was not an Alpha. She was an Omega seamstress from a pack I had never visited. She stood in the doorway holding a folded punishment notice with both hands.

"I was told this is where I come if there

Six months later, the floorboard hung on a wall. Not in a museum. Not in the palace. In the waiting room of the Royal Rank-Abuse Petition Office. I had argued against it for three weeks. Evander wanted it protected behind glass. Rhys wanted it kept in the royal arch