POV: Ian Greco

The safe house I'd secured was compromised within twenty-four hours.

Not by authorities. By my own father, who'd apparently decided I was more liability than asset now that the Council documents had destroyed his political network. The message he left was characteristically brief: "You're on your own. Don't contact family again."

So Emilia's betrayal had cost me everything. My freedom, my family, my carefully constructed future in supernatural politics. All destroyed because ...