Chapter 54

I hold Valerie’s hand as we stop outside the double doors leading to the meeting room. I can feel her nerves through the mate bond, the fear she has for whatever is on the other side of the thick oak door. If things go like I think they will, she is about to be exposed, but hopefully that will come after we are back on the High Hegemony.

“Are you ready for this?” I whisper, and she nods, biting he