“I can"t believe we"re doing this.” Bryan hissed at Alaric as they both leaned under the hood of Riley"s car.
“You didn"t have to come.” Alaric countered, reaching out to check with the others who were hiding along the road.
“This ain"t some action movie.” Bryan said.
“No, but right now, we"re the only chance that Shifter has.”
“You don"t know that.”
Alaric shook his head. “Just do what we talked about. No one will even need to know that we were here.”
Bryan sighed but seemed resigned to the action now that it was upon them. Alaric felt the alert from their first spotter. The van was approaching, with one escort car – an escort in uniform. That wasn"t going to go over well. Alaric sent the message to be strong, silent, and swift to everyone involved.
They had Riley"s car pulled diag
