Mariam's POV
Tiffany urged our prisoner to drive as fast as possible to the Gold Lake pack house, but even so, we arrived almost forty minutes after starting the journey—more than enough time to learn that Melany's kidnapping had been orchestrated by the Alpha of the pack whose territory we were now in.
"It's a typical bait," said the prisoner. "You capture someone important to you, but not too significant to the pack, to avoid causing a serious diplomatic dispute. Instead, your intervention is meant to trigger it."
"Then they're expecting us," I said.
"Exactly," the prisoner confirmed, surprisingly willing to talk. "We were all prepared for you to track your friend's trail, but we thought you would do it without being seen by the guards."
"What do you mean?" Tiffany asked, sitting in
