Chapter 275

• Lexa
• The rehearsal dinner had barely started when Jaxon stood up from the table, his chair scraping loud enough that every conversation around us stuttered into silence.
• "I can't do this," he said, looking at his mother rather than me, his voice steadier than I'd heard it in weeks. "I won't marry into a family currently under formal fraud investigation, Mom. I won't stand up in front of every pack that matters and pretend this is anything other than a disaster waiting to detonate."