#Chapter 20 Convenient Lies Inconvenient Truths

Elroy looked furious, but before I could even process that he was there Iris stepped forward confidently. “Your Luna’s just been framed for oleander poisoning,” she said calmly. Rita screeched. “How dare you?!” she shouted. “You have no right to involve yourself in—” The instant Elroy’s Alpha presence started leaking out of him, though, her jaw snapped shut with a click. “And you have no right to involve yourself in a conversation between me and my son,” Iris said evenly. Rita paled. I froze. Iris—Apothecary Iris was Elroy’s mother? So that was how he’d known to activate the Mate Bond to help me. I didn’t think she’d told him, but he could have seen her notes and put two and two together or something. It also explained why he was so unfazed when Louisa’s video came out, because he already knew. “Go on, Mom,” Elroy prompted. “What was this about oleander?” “This man,” Iris said, gesturing to the man on the ground, “collapsed a few minutes ago. Luna Olivia immediate