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Aria Stands Firm

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**POV: Aria**

The document contained seventeen names.

Aria sat at the study table with Caden beside her and Alpha Ryker across from them, going through the list Elias had compiled over decades. Seventeen pack elders, across twelve different territories, all part of what Vesper had called the coalition. All of them are aware of bloodlines like Aria's, all of them are committed to ensuring those bloodlines never resurface.

"This is enormous," Alpha Ryker said quietly, looking at the scope of it.
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