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THEY HAD COME FOR HER during the quiet shift after the big fight in the refectory, which Wilder hadn’t even been aware of at the time. When the fight fizzled out, these brawlers had come to find her. Goslin, Marcus, Durbin, and Ryan. She didn’t know any of them well. She only ever mixed with the people she trusted: Cherry, Kes, his daughters, Dragan, and Niall. Though Niall had expressed his dislike for her endlessly over the years, she’d known he would never hurt her.
Unlike the rest of them.
Goslin and Durbin were botanists, Marcus was one of Aubriot’s muscle men, and she wasn’t sure what Ryan did. All she knew was Ryan’s partner, Trish, had died on the first plant-hunting expedition.
When her door chime had sounded, she hadn’t suspected anything. No one she didn’t know very
