(kealen)
I left at dawn without telling anyone.
That wasn't entirely true — I told Lara where I was going, because someone needed to know, and because Lara would stay with Kiara and not ask questions in the specific order that made questions easier to hear. I left a note for Theron that said I'll be back by tonight. Don't come.
I knew he would come anyway.
I went because the cold anger that had settled in the study the night before hadn't moved. It was still there, exactly where I'd left it — deep and certain and done with waiting. Cael's team had tracked Seraphine to a settlement three hours east. Not pack territory. The kind of place that existed in the margins between territories, where people went when they needed to exist without being found.
She'd been there for two weeks.
Whic
