Claire POV We followed the route Catherine told us Dad had taken, out of Royal pack and into Silverfang territory. I’ve never experienced a more tense car ride in my entire life. And in the past few weeks, as I traveled from one mobile clinic to another, I’d seen my fair share of stressful rides. I was now used to almost daily run-ins with packs of rogue wolves, each trying to derail the aid our convoys provided, or to steal our supplies. More than once I’d found myself caught up in an actual battle, trying to move our supply trucks through a fight, while rogues hopped onto the trucks and tried to get inside. I’d thought, in those moments, that it was the scariest thing I’d ever experienced. But it was nothing to the fear I felt as we traveled through the darkening evening, down na

