Chapter 38
Which is when I realized where the node was. Not here, at my feet. Here below my feet. Down in the subterranean living quarters I’d spent days locked within.
Now I was the one swearing, using Ryder’s words to warm the hollow pit of my belly. Butch and I alone couldn’t storm the walls of Rowan’s compound. It was doubtful if all of our allies together could do so, not with the defenses I’d seen during my tour.
But a single thief might make it past those defenses. If she was subtle. And skilled.
“I need a distraction.”
I expected Butch to push for more information. Instead, he half-bowed, the gesture almost toppling him. “Any particular location or duration?”
“Away from the compound. As long as you can last.”
Then I fell back on my strongest skill—innocuousness. Sheathing my
