CHAPTER 7
Timeline: 24 Days Until 18
“He’s gone.”
Knox stood in the living room doorway, voice low and flat, like he was announcing something heavy and final. I froze halfway down the stairs, my hand still tight around the banister. “What do you mean, gone?”
“Liam drove out ten minutes ago.” He stepped inside, keys still in his hand, and set them slow on the hall table. “Said pack business. Said it might take a few days. Said we’re to look after you.”
My stomach dropped straight through the floor. “He left me. With all of you.”
“He didn’t leave you with strangers.” Cole walked in from the kitchen, wiping his hands on a towel, his gaze locking on me instantly. “He left you with the only people on this earth who’d die before letting anything happen to you.”
“Strangers would be safer.”
