Chapter 71

Kade

The passage dropped steeply beneath the ruins before widening into an old stone corridor.

Whatever this place had once been, someone had made it livable again.

Modern lamps had been fixed to walls carved with symbols worn almost smooth by time. Electrical cables ran along the floor. Wooden crates filled old alcoves, and farther ahead I caught the smell of food, weapons oil, wolfsbane, and too many unfamiliar wolves.

This wasn’t a temporary hideout.

They had been here for a long time.

Knox pressed against me, restless enough that holding my human form took effort.

Abby was somewhere inside.

I still couldn’t hear her through the mind-link, but the certainty that she was close had settle