GREEN’S POV.Ravenna sat silently for several long seconds after I told her to start from the beginning.The tiny apartment remained almost completely still beneath the faint rattling of winter wind against the old windows while her hands twisted nervously together in her lap. Exhaustion hollowed out her expression now that the adrenaline from earlier had finally faded, leaving behind something far more dangerous than panic.Defeat.“It was Mrs. Herbert,” Ravenna said quietly. “Her daughter had been hospitalized for over a month. My mother was one of the pediatric nurses assigned to her care.”The name immediately caught my attention.Mrs. Herbert was not simply another wealthy woman inside Blood Moon territory. Her husband belonged to one of the pack’s oldest influential bloodlines, and the Herbert family held enough political and financial influence that even council elders treated them carefully. Their donations funded parts of the central hospital, several military rehabilitation
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