Chapter 318. Following Them

Aurora’s POV

It was eerily quiet in the woods, the kind of silence that felt like it was waiting to pounce at any moment. The air was damp, heavy with the scent of pine and earth, and the crunch of leaves under our boots seemed much louder than it should’ve been. I glanced at my watch-one forty--five AM, exactly when we had planned to slip out. Alice was walking close beside me, her breath clouding in the cool air, her voice low when she whispered.

“Are you sure no one saw you leave? Caleb can be... ridiculously observant when he wants to be.”

I gave her a quick look, pulling my jacket tighter around me. “Relax, I was careful. I waited until the guards rotated. Caleb didn’t see me, nobody did. Trust me, if he had, he’d already be blowing up my phone with questions.”

She still looked uneasy, her gaze darting back toward the faint glow of the pack house in the distance.

We stopped near the thick cluster of trees where the shadows seemed deeper, dar