SERAPHINA’S POV
By the time we returned to Nightfang, the entire world already knew the truth about Marcus Draven.
We walked into the command center to see screens lit up with clipped footage from every angle of the tribunal square.
There was Marcus emerging from smoke he had no business being near if he were truly uninvolved.
Marcus crossing the battlefield with murder in his eyes. Marcus detonating darkness in the middle of a public execution he had claimed to condemn from a distance.
Marcus vanishing while Jack Draven, his own son, twisted into a nightmare and tore free of every restraint the allied forces had prepared.
Headline after headline crawled across the monitors.
MARCUS DRAVEN EXPOSED AT ROGUE TRIAL.
NEUTRAL ALPHA OR HIDDEN MASTERMIND?
NIGHTFANG CLAIMS VINDICATION AFTER PUBLIC ATTACK.
Even the online boards that had spent the past few days swinging between hating and loving me had shifted their attention.
