Bent, Bonded, Buried

Casimir Hall has worn the Iron Season patch for nine years and buried most of his brothers. The club retakes stolen omegas from traffickers and returns them to their legal bondholders. Return-to-owner. No exceptions. Then a recovery goes wrong, Cas confirms the target chose her bond, and he breaks the only rule that matters. He brings her back anyway. The owner turns out to be a Bureau contractor running a laundering pipeline, and on the forger's desk, waiting quietly, is Casimir's own intake file. He takes it. He goes to ground. And when his club votes to strip his patch, Cas discovers that the file has been read by more men than he knows.