Chapter 24
Five days had passed since I felt her power tear through the bond.
Five days of silence after that single massive surge. The connection between us still existed, but it had become a dull, distant pressure that told me only that she was alive. Nothing more. No emotion. No direction. No way to follow it.
I stood at the window of my study and stared out at the eastern treeline as if I could force the distance to give her up. It did not work. It never worked.
Lila entered without knocking. She closed the door behind her and dropped a thin folder on my desk.
“That is everything Rylan’s contacts could pull from the hospitals and clinics within a hundred miles of the eastern crossing,” she said. “No one matching her description was admitted under her real name. A few Jane Does com
