Caden’s POV The drive was silent. It took well over an hour to arrive. When we finally did, they shoved us into a private elevator and sent us straight to the top floor. The doors slid open with a ding, revealing a space crawling with rogues—and a handful of humans among them. They all stopped to stare. I kept Baylee tight in my arms. She buried her face in the crook of my neck. She was scared. And that terrified me more than anything. Not one of them looked remorseful. They didn’t care that I held a trembling child. They didn’t care they planned to torture us. Monsters—each and every one of them. And when this was over, I’d come back and make sure every single bastard who helped hurt my Baylee paid for it. “Security is out,” Ben linked. I didn’t react out loud, but his voice sent a

