LILY'S POV
"They're still behind us."
"I know."
"Same distance for the last forty minutes."
"I know."
"Which means they're not trying to catch us."
"No," Mason said. "They're herding us."
The word sat in the car for a moment.
"Herding us toward what," I said.
"That's what I'm trying to work out."
Owen had both hands on the wheel and his eyes moving between the road ahead and the mirror behind with the steady rhythm of someone who had been in worse situations and had decided a long time ago that panic was just wasted energy.
"The Ashford territory," I said. "Could they have people already there."
"Sable runs a tight border. Anyone moving on her land without permission gets flagged immediately."
"That's not a no."
"No," Mason said. "It isn't."
"So they could be herding us stra
