The Unspoken Accord
A pot of strong English breakfast tea sat untouched between them.
“Tell me,” she said. Her voice held no hysterics, no social flutter. It was the calm, focused tone of a general receiving a battlefield report.
William spoke in clipped, precise sentences. The timeline of the leaks. The specific details used. The dinner with the Eight. The failed legal avenues. Thorne’s history, his modus operandi, his current wounded, vengeful state.
Evelyn listened, her sharp eyes missing nothing. She asked only a few questions.