The alarm's shriek cut through the chaos like a blade, and Lily's entire world narrowed to a single, terrifying thought: her mother. Richard.
"Go," Ethan said instantly, reading the panic on her face even as he kept his eyes locked on Vane, positioning himself squarely between the advancing rogues and the house. "I'll hold them here. Find your mother."
"I'm not leaving you...."
"Lily." His voice cracked with the force of the command, desperate and absolute. "If something happens to Susan while we're standing here arguing, neither of us will forgive ourselves. Go. Now."
She went, tearing across the battlefield toward the house with her heart in her throat, dodging past clashing bodies and snapping jaws, Selena falling into step beside her without being asked.
"I know a faster route to
