#Chapter 39: Business Proposal

Evelyn The library was quiet this time of night. It was the perfect place to conduct research into the early hours of the morning with its peaceful backdrop to my terrifying research. But I didn’t need peace anymore. I needed answers. Stacked papers surrounded me, corners curling with age, the ink on some entries faded to near invisibility. I’d read everything I could find twice already: field reports from rogue skirmishes, medical logs, and incident statements. My eyes felt strained and dry from so much tedious reading. Still, the silence around Emma grated on me. She had been a rogue who’d once stood in opposition to Logan and his allies, had reportedly maimed soldiers, and nearly cost some werewolves their lives. And yet somehow she now walked these halls like her hands weren’t drenched in blood. And Logan’s mother allowed and encouraged her presence. The more I read, the more I wondered how much Logan knew. Was he playing at being ignorant of all of this, or did he