Chapter 24
“The talented hawk hides its claws,” my mother noted as Gunner’s SUV pulled to a halt in front of my apartment complex. And despite my best attempt at maintaining a poker face, I was pretty sure I jolted visibly at the internal commentary yet again. So it was a good thing any astute alpha questions were cut off by an interjection from the back seat.
“One hour,” Tank informed us, looking up from his phone for the first time since we’d entered the vehicle. “Jackal says he’ll meet us at the southside McDonald’s at 11 pm. He wants Mai there.”
I nodded, already pushing open the SUV door in relief. I’d be too frazzled to think straight if I spent the next sixty minutes in these wolves’ presence...especially with the ghost of a mother hovering at the back of my mind. So a little tim
