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Draven's pov

The betrayal didn't come like a gunshot,it came like rot. Quiet. Slow. Internal.

We buried the breach deep, sealed off the comm lines, and triple-scrambled the GPS logs. But damage like this wasn't random. It was precision. Someone had fed Snow the coordinates to the underground safehouse. Someone inside.

I stood in the middle of the war room,if you could call the reinforced vault under the estate that,and let the silence simmer. It was midnight, and only five people stood around the long metal table: my inner circle. The ones I trusted most.

Or used to.

Eira stood at my left, arms crossed, eyes scanning every movement like a panther sizing up the hunt. On my right, Talon leaned against the wall with a sniper's stillness, unreadable as always. Cassian, our tech specialist, fidgeted beside the satellite panel, glasses slipping down his nose. Then there was Rhea, my field captain,jaw tense, knuckles white where they gripped her belt.