Chapter 140

Abby

Kade’s voice went over all of them like a wave.

“Enough.”

He didn’t shout it. He didn’t need to. It was the Alpha’s voice, the one I had heard him use only a handful of times in my life, and it came up out of the bottom of him and went through the crowd and out across the frozen garden, and every single person in that ring of firelight stopped where they stood.

The big cook in the apron took a step back. Then another.

Behind us, the storehouse roof came down.

It went all at once, with a long splintering groan and a rush of sparks that went up into the dark like a flock of birds, and the heat came out across the frost and hit my face. Somebody screamed. The hose crews staggered back and then set their feet and went in again. And in the middle of it, very calmly, Kade began to give orders.

Ryan, to the fire. Every warrior on the bucket line who wasn’t already there. The kitchens emptied and checked, the packhouse woken room