NEVA POV
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The letter arrived three days after the double engagement celebration, and its formal seal — the same council-registered format that had once carried news of Elara's testimony — stopped every conversation in the diner the moment Bekah brought it to our table.
I opened it with hands that weren't quite steady, my wolf already alert at the specific weight the paper carried.
*Neva. I am writing under supervision, as my current status requires, but I wanted you to know something before it reaches you through official channels. My daughter's actions, however grievous, revealed something I had failed to fully account for in my own accountability process — that the structure's harm extends beyond documented operatives into the emotional inheritance carried by every family connecte
