ALESSIA The engine cut off almost as quickly as it had started, and for one suspended second nobody in the courtyard moved at all. Then Ryker was moving, already barking something into his phone that sounded like coordinates, and Aiden had a hand at my back propelling me toward the nearest building with a speed that left no room for questions, and Jasper was on my other side, and Logan had gone somewhere I couldn't track in the sudden chaos of four people rearranging themselves around a single point of danger. "Inside," Aiden said. "Now." We made it through the doors of the nearest building — a lecture hall, dark, locked from the outside but not from the key Aiden produced without slowing down — and he had us through it and into a service stairwell before I'd fully processed that we we

