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ROWAN’S POV

There is a beat of absolute silence.

And then Cleo makes a sound like a balloon dying, one long helpless wheeze, and Malachi’s mouth twitches for the first time all day, actually twitches, and I have to slam my knuckles against my lips because I am going to lose it.

I am going to completely lose it, because the most feared man on the continent, the Lycan whose name empties council cham