LILY'S POV
Two fifteen came quietly.
There wasn't any drama or ceremony. Just the clock moving to the number and Mason checking his watch and Owen standing up from the table with the particular stillness of someone switching from waiting to moving.
"Comms are down," Petra said through the phone. Harper had it on speaker in the centre of the table. "Ten minute window starting now."
"Confirmed," Owen said.
He looked at Mason.
Mason looked at me.
I'd told myself I wasn't going to make it a thing. That I was going to be exactly what the situation needed which was calm and present and not the person who grabbed his arm in the doorway and made the last thing he saw before walking into a Covenant compound be worry.
I was calm and present.
And I took his hand for exactly three seconds.
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