I catch Colton glancing my way, something flickering across his eyes as he thinks, and then he turns back to Mateo. I miss the fleeting message in his look, not sure what it meant.
“Okay, maybe. I mean, we always knew he would try to maneuver some sort of union around the mountain. I just didn’t think he would physically expect them to move here. The device, we don’t know enough to second guess what it would do to us all in the valley. What we brought back has a limited range.” Colton is stiff, uneasy, and I can tell he doesn’t like his pack questioning orders from above. He truly is hooked by the nose when it comes to his father, and I need to figure out how to get in there and remove the darn thing. Maybe I wasn’t paired with Colton so he could save me from my life; maybe I was paired w
