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"Did Evren call you?"

"No, but he called an associate I trust A genealogist from America" Konrad raised an eyebrow "This theory they have about yourwe know tells us that it should be iree with Evren, no other option makes sense"

"Irina have taken human lovers over the centuries," Konrad said "This has always happened, because they are not bound by touch as we are It’s not so a family would talk about As far as I can tell, no children have ever coically, we’ve never understood why, but--"

"But Ava’s father is the only possibility at this point If Jasper Reed’s mother was Irina--who somehow had a child by a human--it’s possible she could have hidden it"

"And who is his randmother? Do we know? She hter to control so ic with only a fraction of Irin blood"

Rhys said, "That’s the proble about her We found Reed’s medical records from the American foster-care system Her name had been erased, but that’s not a problelanced at Malachi "Her first name was Ava, and that’s the only name listed We have no other evidence of her No paperwork She disappeared from the system after she surrendered her son"

"Is she alive?"

Leo said, "Ava says she isn’t That her father told her his mother died when he was a child"

Konrad said to Malachi, "And your randmother"

"Apparently"

"Ava is a very common Irina name," Rhys added quietly

Konrad sat back in his chair and looked between the three of the while as a ser than oneat Malachi "You think there are more"

"If we didn’t know about Ava, maybe we don’t know about others," Malachi said "If one Irina had a child with a human lover and hid it, others could have as well Maybe there are lost Irina out there If there are, they need us to find them They are not at home in the human world"

Rhys added, "And if there areout, it would change the balance of the council, would it not? If there are lost Irina out there, Grigori would be drawn to theht Contain the Grigori and find our lost sisters"