Baiting the Wolf

ROWAN’S POV

We all turn.

Vance has been silent through all of it, arms crossed, jaw getting harder by the minute, and now he pushes off the wall with the specific energy of a man who has reached his absolute limit.

“No,” he says. “I am not drinking poison to smell like a diseased beta, I am not wearing a surgical mask to hide a fictional weeping rash, and I am not sending my fiancée onto a floor f