In the elevator I called Ronan.
He picked up on the first ring. "Sere, I am so sorry. Last night when I went upstairs I couldn't get away, and then I drank too much and my phone died, I didn't even realise until this morning..."
"You got held up by someone, didn't you?" I said.
He laughed, which confirmed it, then cleared his throat. "Kael had words with me this morning. I deserved it. He went and made sure you got home safe... if anything had happened to you I'd have owed him more than I could pay."
I stepped out of the elevator into the lobby, still smiling into my phone, and stopped.
The cabin grounds had a small security booth near the gate, manned by whichever pack member was on rotation. The figure in the booth today was shorter than any of the guards and older, and before I'd c
