With fifteen minutes to spare, we all gathered on my porch to organize ourselves. Rex had already taken care of assigning people to vehicles; we had two trucks ready, and the luggage was loaded. All that was missing was Alexander and the new “alpha” coming out with the last bags, and in a few more minutes we would be gone. I still had no idea where we were headed or what Agent Aguilera had in mind, but in the meantime I had made sure I would be the one carrying Sasha, and that I would stay close to the vehicles. Nika stood a few steps from me, that huge assault rifle in her hands, and Richie wandered near the bend of the shed. He was staring at something in the snow, very focused. He crouched and stirred the snow at his feet, lifted a handful. The blonde woman kept looking insistently t

