#Chapter 29: Fidelity

DEREK The report sat on my desk, its edges curling slightly from how many times I’d already flipped through it. I had been expecting something damning—evidence that Logan had schemed, that he had manipulated his way into Elena’s life while I had been drowning in grief. Or even that she’d been with him while she was still with me, despite her emphatic declaration that she’d never cheated. Instead, I had found something far worse. The truth. I ran a hand over my jaw, exhaling sharply. The information had come from Carly, one of the rogues my patrol had captured. I remembered her vaguely from the day I’d found Elena. I’d been on the verge of killing the interlopers when Erebus had scented Nox. Everything that happened after that was still dream-like; the look on Elena’s face the moment her wolf recognized mine… I thought back to the few couples who’d managed to find their fated mates at the Masquerade Ball. The singular focus on their mate, the way everything around them f