RAID ON HUNTER SAFE HOUSE
~TATE'S POV~
The Hunter compound sat in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by forest and protected by wards I could feel even from half a mile away. Dark magic mixed with technology, cameras, motion sensors, and tripwires loaded with silver and wolfsbane.
They were expecting us.
"This feels wrong," I whispered to Mathias. We crouched behind a fallen log with Daxon and twenty elite warriors spread out around us. "It's too quiet."
"Everything about this mission feels wrong," Mathias agreed. "But we can't let Karl keep feeding them information."
Through the bond, I felt his determination mixed with fear. Not for himself. For me. He didn't want me here, but I refused to stay behind.
"Teams in position," Silas reported through the Pack link. "Waiting on your sign
