Kael's voice cut through my panic like a blade through fog. "You're not going in alone."
"I'm the only one who can walk into that hospital without starting a firefight." I was already pulling on my boots. "I know every exit. Every blind spot. Every supply closet where a sixteen-year-old girl could hide."
Jax was at the door before I finished the sentence, sliding a knife into his boot. "I'll take the parking garage. Anyone in that van moves, they don't move again."
"Alive," Kael said. "I want one alive."
"Boring." But Jax's green eyes were already sharp with purpose.
The plan came together in thirty seconds. Kael and Tank would circle the perimeter — two shadows in a parking lot full of shadows. Wolf would stay at the compound with Ghost, monitoring the security feeds, ready to move i
