ELENA'S POV The extraction team moved at hour thirty-six. Seraphine led it personally, still not fully recovered and not willing to hear arguments about that, with Dax and four of Ryker's wolves and everything Logan had given us about the facility's security rotation laid out in a sequence that left no gaps. They went in at three in the morning while I was standing at the safe house window watching the city and running the parallel plan through my head for the fourteenth time. Kyle's phone buzzed at four fifteen. One word from Seraphine. Done. I exhaled. Viviana and Ryker were out. I picked up my jacket. Lucian was in the doorway before I reached it. "The signal came," I said. "They're out. I'm going." "I know," he said. He didn't move out of the doorway. "Elena." "We've had

