Bryce is annoyed that Hunt is watching her apartment from a building rooftop across the street, so she closes the drapes. He pesters her to make a list of suspects as well as compiling Danika’s actions during the last week of her life. Ignoring Hunt’s orders, Bryce goes to get her nails done the following morning, which infuriates the angel further. She thinks to herself, “What she had to do tonight. Gods […] help her when Athalar got wind of it. But the thought of his face when he realized what she had planned … Yeah, it’d be satisfying” (180).

That evening, Bryce goes to visit her brother at his bachelor pad. Because he’s a member of the military Auxiliaries, or Aux, she thinks he might have some information about the Viper Queen’s whereabouts on the night that Danika was killed. The two were on bad terms, making the queen a suspect in the shifter’s murder. Ruhn agrees to check the official records. He has a hunch that his search for Luna’s Horn is somehow connected to Bryce’s investigation.