CHAPTER 16
Timeline: 15 Days Until 18
“They’re getting bolder.”
Knox dropped the binoculars onto the kitchen table, his jaw set so hard the muscle jumped. “Three of them. Right at the north tree line. Just standing there. Watching. Like they know we can’t reach them without leaving the house unguarded.”
“Let me go.” Jax stood up fast, already reaching for his jacket. “I can circle around. Come up behind them. Before they know I’m there—”
“No.” Knox cut him off, sharp and final. “We don’t split up. Not now. Not when they’re trying to draw us out. They want us to chase them. They want an opening. We don’t give them one.”
I stood in the doorway, listening, my arms folded tight around myself. Fifteen days. That’s all that stood between us and everything they feared. Fifteen days until I
