Not once. Maren's section was longer. Seventeen specific incidents documented. All of it was in Maren's own records, the kind a person kept when they believed they were managing a situation correctly and wanted evidence of their competence. Those records were now evidence of something else entirely. Brent's section I had to read twice. Not because it was unclear. Because my mind kept trying to reject the specific detail of what had been done by a twenty one year old to a girl who was his blood. The incidents went back further than the shack, back to when she was twelve and he was thirteen and had already understood that she was the one nobody was going to protect. I set that page face down on the desk. Vera. Drace. Hadoc. Dolin. Torvin. The full pack membership section at the end, nam

