MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
Chapter Seventy One — Maren
They split the compound into four sections.
Rhen took the east building with two council wolves.
Corvin took the north corridor and the archive.
Edmund took the outer perimeter.
Mara walked the center.
Caius beside her.
Zane on her other side.
The compound was quiet.
Two in the morning quiet.
The kind where every sound was the wrong sound and every shadow was something until it was not.
They checked the council room first.
Empty.
The east hall.
Empty.
The lower offices.
Empty.
Mara looked at the courtyard.
At the buildings around it.
At the light still on in Lena's window in the west wing.
She looked at Caius.
He looked at the window.
He was already moving.
She moved with him.
Lena's door was open.
Not forced.
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