Chapter 10

“Enough.” His measured tone betrayed nothing. “I was going to hear your side of it when you were feeling up to the story. I didn’t expect you to rebound this quickly.”

“I’m still tired,” he admitted, and because he had to cop to it all…“Alec wasn’t easy to wrangle.”

A smile tried to form on Martin’s face and failed. “He’s a lot like his father. Will always insisted on doing things his way, too.” He sighed. “Which is why we’re in this mess.”

Martin’s pain was palpable, driving Rowan forward. No matter how intimidated Rowan was by his powers, Martin was as much a parent to him as his father was. “I don’t know if it’ll mean anything, but I couldn’t see any displaced wards. And I don’t think he was in human form when he fled. The glass was in smaller pieces, like something more compact punched its way through it.”