Damon’s POV
Victor's memory led exactly where Ethan feared it would. Two days after Victor came forward, Ethan finally cracked the last layer of the rogue territory correspondence and found a name buried under years of careful obscuring — Magnus Dreadfang.
He brought it to Damon immediately, laying the evidence across the desk without softening any of it.
"It's him," Ethan said. "The same name Aria mentioned in her mother's vision, if what you told me is accurate. He's been operating through rogue contacts for over two decades, and Selena's correspondence traces straight back to someone working under his name."
Damon stared at the papers for a long time before speaking. "Twenty-two years. He's been planning this for twenty-two years, and I walked right into the middle of it without kn
