NEVA POV
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The message arrived four days later, through none of the compound's registered channels — a physical letter, delivered by an ordinary courier who claimed no knowledge of the sender beyond a paid instruction to deliver it directly to me.
Mitch scanned it for any trace of danger before I opened it, his careful thoroughness never more welcome than in this exact moment.
*Neva. I understand you're looking for me, and I understand why. I want to be direct: I have no intention of hurting your daughter. I need you to understand that before anything else, because I know what you're bracing for, and I know why, given everything Vesna's remnants have already cost your family. What I want is considerably harder to explain in a letter, and I don't trust any method of communication that
