Chapter 23: No more uploading
The compound was too quiet. Elara felt it immediately—the wrongness of it, the tension in the air. Wolves should have been moving through the darkness, patrolling, watching. But the paths were empty. The buildings dark. Where is everyone? Kael's hand on her arm pulled her into the shadows beside the kitchens. The strike team pressed against the wall, hearts pounding, senses stretched. "This is wrong." Cassian's whisper was barely audible. "Even at night, there should be guards. Sentries. Something." Dace's eyes scanned the darkness. "Maybe they're all at the main gate. Expecting the attack there." "Maybe." But Kael's voice was grim. "Or maybe Marlena knows we're coming." Elara reached through the bond, feeling for threats, for danger, for anything that might explain the eerie silenc
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