Damian's Pov
I came back from the drop point with blood on my knuckles that wasn't mine and found Reyes waiting for me in the yard instead of inside, which told me before he said a word that whatever he had to show me wasn't something he wanted witnessed by anyone else still awake in that clubhouse.
"You need to see this before you see her," he said, and led me to his office instead of letting me go to Wren first, and the fact that he'd made that call without asking me told me exactly how serious he thought it was.
The patch sat on his desk in a plastic bag, faded at the edges in a way new leather never fades, and I felt something in my chest go still the moment I recognized what I was looking at.
"Where."
"Left deliberately at the drop site. Not lost. Not torn off in a fight. Placed,
