Two weeks into the Fae Countermeasures Initiative, I discovered that our daughter had inherited more than just my empathic abilities and Dante's strategic mind—she had also developed an alarming capacity for self-sacrifice that made both of us question whether we'd raised her too well.
The realization came during what should have been a routine briefing in Marcus's expanded intelligence center, a facility that had grown from a single room to an entire underground complex as the scope of Fae infiltration became clear. Banks of monitoring equipment tracked supernatural activity across six continents, while teams of analysts worked around the clock to identify patterns in the Courts' intelligence gathering efforts.
"The false vulnerability we planted in the European network nodes worked per
