NEVA POV
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I was still in Ryke's arms at the gate when Mitch's voice cut through the reunion, urgent in a way that told me before he finished speaking that the night's relief had already run its course.
"Corva's other three families," he said, his phone lit in the dark. "I've been running deeper checks while you were gone. One of them just flagged."
My wolf went cold and alert immediately, the specific whiplash this compound had learned to manage between celebration and crisis.
"Flagged how," Ryke said, his arms still around me but his whole body shifting into readiness.
"A woman named Priya Osei," Mitch said, turning his screen toward us. "Late thirties, connected to the structure through a grandmother who was one of Vesna's family's earliest recruits. She's been quiet for years —
