Shattered Denial

VANCE’S POV

She’s right, Specter says, low and certain, fully awake now. She’s been right since the first night. The house is wrong.

“Rowan—”

“And the wolf.” She turns to me, and now there’s something almost desperate threading through it. “In the fight. With Vera. I know you decided it was a concussion. I know that’s the sensible answer, and Goddess, you love a sensible answer; you’d file the apo