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Zander's pov.

The memory of that night played in my mind like an unrelenting storm. Even as I sat in my office at Silverfang, brooding over the events that had unfolded, my anger simmered beneath the surface. Aria Nightshade had tested my patience, and she had failed spectacularly.

It had started the moment I left her father's castle after that strained meeting in the study