LILY'S POV
"Same hotel?"
"Different one," Owen said. "Cash. Fake name. Top floor. Twenty minutes from the Council building."
"Close enough to be there early," I said.
"Far enough that they can't watch the entrance from the street." He glanced at me in the mirror. "Same principle."
I looked out the window at the road ahead. Seventeen days since we'd driven this way in the opposite direction with the Covenant behind us and everything uncertain in front. The landscape looked the same. The sky looked the same.
Everything else was different.
"Harper," I said.
"Yes."
"Walk me through tomorrow again."
"You've heard it three times."
"Walk me through it a fourth time."
She looked at me from the other side of the back seat with the expression of someone who understood completely why I wa
