Chapter Seventeen
We are moving before Caden finishes the sentence.
No discussion. No plan laid out in careful steps. Just the two of us on our feet and Rook already ahead of us and Jasper, who heard from across the room, at my shoulder with his jaw set and his eyes hard.
The chamber erupts behind us. Other wolves calling out. The council member shouting something about procedure. None of it matters. All of it falls away.
Nora is in that compound with three guards who are not answering.
I am running.
Two hours is too long.
I know it the moment we are in the car. Two hours is the distance Aldric calculated when he chose to use this hearing as cover. Two hours to get there and he left during the deliberation which means he has close to an hour of head start and an hour is everything.
