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Declan's POV “Say it again,” I said, but my voice did not sound like it belonged to me anymore, it sounded like something held together by effort alone, and I stayed seated because standing up felt like it would break the last bit of control I still had over my body.Callum did not hesitate, he just kept speaking like he had already carried this truth for too long to care how it landed, “Hera was twenty two years old,” he said, “and Voss selected her personally.”Rider did not move, Declan was completely frozen, and Bailey was the only one still watching Callum like she was trying to decide whether the ground itself had shifted under her feet.Callum continued, “He constructed a partial mate bond into her against her will and used her as a controlled variable to test whether he could place influence inside a bonded system without triggering detection.”I felt my throat go dry, but I still listened.“He intended her to reach you,” Callum said, “and to become Luna under conditions wher