RIAN POV The safehouse sat at the edge of a dead orchard, twenty kilometers past the last city checkpoint. One floor, no windows on the ground level, Lucien called it off-grid I called it a tomb with plumbing. But it had a lock that worked, a generator that hummed and no Task Force drones in the sky. For now that was enough. Theo collapsed on the cot the second we got inside. Kael didn't leave his side, he just sat on the floor beside him, close enough to catch him if he fell but far enough not to crowed. Lucien locked the door, checked the perimeter cameras twice, then turned to me. "You're pale," he said. "So are you," I shot back. He didn't smile. "When did you last sleep." "Before the breach." "Then sleep now," I shook my head. "Not until you you tell me what the council wants with Theo." Lucien's jaw tightened. "They want leverage. Omegas with instable heats can be weaponized. They wanted to see if they could force it and control it. "And Theo?" "They t
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