Lead POV: Rhen Thornwolf"He is gone, Rhen. Garrick left before dawn, and no one saw which direction he went, which means whatever he knows about you, Vane already knows it too."Sable's voice was breathless when she burst into my mother's cottage, her cloak still damp from running through the wet grass, and I felt the news land in my chest like a stone dropped into still water, spreading outward until every part of me went cold with it."How long ago," I asked, already reaching for my boots."Dorian sent word an hour past," Sable said. "Alaric wanted him brought in quietly at dawn, but someone must have warned him first. He was already gone by the time the guards reached his cottage."My mother stood frozen near the hearth, her hands pressed flat against her mouth, and I understood without asking that some part of her had always feared this exact moment, the moment the curse stopped being a story and started being a war standing at our door."I need to find Kieran," I said, tying my
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