We didn't go in the front. Kael led us around the side, to the same delivery door Priya had used hours earlier, and I noticed, not for the first time, how easily he moved through spaces that weren't supposed to have back ways in, how much of running a pack apparently meant knowing every door nobody talked about.
"Stay behind me," he said, low, and for once I didn't argue with it, because this wasn't the kind of moment where I needed to prove anything. This was the kind where two people who trusted each other's judgment simply used whichever one made more sense for the situation, and right now that was him.
The door was unlocked. Priya wouldn't have left it that way, not after everything that had happened tonight, which meant whoever was inside had either forced it or had a key that shoul
