By the time we reached the sixth outpost, the blast doors had already been breached. Rowan and I were helping move the wounded and the children to safety when I spotted Ivy's uncle on the roof, setting up a sniper rifle loaded with silver rounds. "Kill her!" he shouted. "Once Mara's dead, the six outposts will have no choice but to fall back in line with Adrian!" The white rose emblem on the rogue who had attacked me three days earlier flashed through my mind. So Ivy's family really was involved. And if she'd lied about that, I had every reason to question everything else she'd told Adrian, including her illness and the story about saving his life. The rifle swung toward me. Adrian shifted into his black wolf and lunged forward, trying to take the shot for me. He was too late. The

