FIA
Morrigan's breathing had gone shallow. Her hands gripped the armrests of her chair so tight her knuckles went white.
"Tell me," I said. "Tell me how he helped. After Gabriel's vendetta. Tell me everything."
She nodded and I waited. This part had to come from her. She had to walk herself through it. She had to see it with her own eyes, her own memory. That was the only way it would stick.
She started slow.
"When Gabriel first started targeting Nocturne," she said, "Aldric was the one who told me something was wrong. He came to me privately. Said Gabriel was acting erratic. Paranoid. He said Gabriel believed Nocturne was a threat to our pack's security."
She paused. Her eyes moved across the floor like she was reading words written there.
"Aldric said he tried to reason with Gabriel. Tried to calm him down. But Gabriel wouldn't listen. So Aldric came to me. He said we needed to stop Gabriel before things escalated. Before innocent people got hurt."
