NEVA POV
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*He followed me. I think he's been following you the whole time.*
I stood in the training yard with that sentence settling into my bones, and I felt something underneath it that had nothing to do with fear — a kind of cold, focused clarity, the same clarity that had carried me through every revelation of the last few days. Hew had watched me my entire childhood. He'd watched me through four months in Caius's house. He'd watched me leave. And now he was standing two miles from where I slept, close enough that the distance felt less like geography and more like patience finally running out.
"He's not coming for a confrontation." Mitch was already moving toward the comm panel. "If he wanted to take you, he's had better chances than standing still outside town. He's waiting fo
