Chapter 168

Third Person's POV

Vivienne used the money she'd extorted from Matilda to further fuel the gossip in bars and coffeehouses, paying bartenders and baristas to sensationalize Valerica's past mating with Garrick.

Seeing no response from the Glacierclaw Pack—and noting they'd sealed their borders and withdrawn from public life—Vivienne assumed Valerica was cowering in fear of the public backlash.

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