“What in God’s name is going on?

I was locked out of my own office this morning.

The board tells me you suspended my access?”

I handed Edmund gently back to Rosalie, stepped out into the hall, and pulled the door shut behind me so that not one word of this would reach the room where my family was.

I looked at my mother for a long moment before I spoke, and whatever she saw in my face stopped her voice in her throat.

“You intercepted Rosalie’s calls,” I said.