Liam was seriously considering fleeing to another country.
'Will Gabriel offer me political asylum?' Liam wondered while reading the family chat group with increasing worry for his mental health.
It was not that Liam lacked courage.
He had survived the Vanguard's first unstable compression cycle, three Canmore succession dinners, two attempts by Felix to "mentor" him in public, and one conversation with his mother about why he had disappeared for five days and returned with a royal alpha attached to his life like a military-grade bond seal.
He was a brave man.
A practical man.
A man who knew when a structure had exceeded its tolerance limit and should be evacuated before the whole thing collapsed over everyone's heads.
The structure in question was his family.
The collapse was happening in real time.
