Adam was meant to come and see me that night after I was brought back to the cell but he was nowhere to be seen. He left to make that phone call and I didn’t see him again. But I did talk to Azalea for a moment before they brought me back to the cell. I was really confused and I didn’t know what to think. I wondered if Adam, under pressure from the council and the accusations against me, might be starting to believe everything that they were saying—or if he was deliberately distancing himself to keep me safe or protect our pack in some way. He couldn’t possibly believe it; he was there with me. Opal always brought people into the pack, turned my cousin against me, and he saw my parents kidnap Bentley. He knew and saw so much. But I knew that they were never going to bring him in to tes