Evelina's POV
Horses were already being brought around when I came down the next morning, Caspian's two guards checking saddles while the last of the packing got loaded onto a third. The sky hadn't fully cleared from yesterday's rain, everything still smelling faintly of wet stone.
I had one foot in the stirrup when Coran caught up with me, out of breath, with the answer I'd asked him for before we left the hall.
"Malik's gone," he said. "Left before dawn."
"Toward our pack?"
"West."
That stopped me with my foot still half in the stirrup. "West toward what?"
"I don't know. I had a man follow at a distance, but Malik crossed onto another road before we lost him. Could be Dresden's territory. Could be one of the other Alphas who got a letter. Could be somewhere else entirely."
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