Chapter 179

Kane's POV

Something’s not right here, and I should have known sooner. Everything's wrong. We should hear some humans, meet greater resistence than a few mindless zombies. So far, it's almost been too easy. “Kane,” Zael says. “What are you waiting for? Call in your wolves.”

“No.” I turn to Zael. “I’ll be sending them to their deaths.”

“Well, they’re all we have, unless--”

I shake my head and hold up my hand. “Listen,” I say aloud before I mind link with Glenn. “Can you hear anything? It’s very quiet for a human residence. Too quiet.”

“They must be using some kind of magic though, right?” Glenn asks in return.

“But Zael could hear them earlier. When we were outside.”

“Shit,” Zael mutters. “We are idiots.”

“No. We’re just desperate.” Glenn frowns at me, just like Alhora frowns at Zael. “It’s a trap,” I go on in my chancellor's head. "They have us right where they want us. We need to leave. Right now."

“Quietly,” Zael says so softly that no human would ever hear him.

We slip out