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Chapter 552
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2026-07-23 06:57:38
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Tobias's POVWe head towards the food court with everyone else, keeping enough distance between us that nobody looking our way would see anything more than the Crown Prince walking beside Shadow's Alpha. After twelve miles sitting alone together in the car, where touching him had already started to feel natural, having to remember that nobody knows about us is fucking strange. Lincoln isn't ready for his pack to know yet, though, and after everything he's already asked them to accept tonight, I'm not about to take that choice away from him.The mundane normality of the place feels fucking bizarre. Bright signs advertise burgers, fried chicken, coffee and sandwiches as though there aren't armed warriors positioned outside every entrance. Music plays quietly through speakers in the ceiling, almost drowned out by the voices of Shadow wolves moving through as quickly as possible, and the smell of chips, coffee and grilled meat hangs heavily in the air.Nobody is treating this like a prope
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Tobias's POVI move around the front of the car and stop beside him. “They're safe,” I say quietly.His eyes stay on the family. “For now.”“Because of you.”That gets his attention.“Don't.” he says shaking his head“Don't what?” I ask, turning towards him,“Don’t Try to make this into something it's not.”My eyebrows pull together. “And what exactly do you think it is?”Lincoln looks across the forecourt. More cars are arriving every few seconds now, doors opening almost as quickly as engines shut off, people stretching cramped legs before getting on with whatever they need to do. An older man grips his son's forearm as he eases himself carefully out of a low car, his knees obviously stiff after the drive. A teenage girl struggles past with a duffel bag over one shoulder and a folded blanket tucked beneath her arm. Near the pumps, a woman opens an overpacked boot and catches a framed photograph just before it slides out with the bags piled around it. She presses it against her chest
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Tobias's POVI keep hold of Zahra's presence for another few seconds anyway, letting the steady awareness that she's there settle some of the pressure in my chest before I force myself to concentrate on the warrior waving us towards an empty space. I triple-check my fuel gauge. It's still reading as full. I should be able to make it most of the way to Daemon's borders without needing to stop, especially at the easy speed we've been travelling at.I pull in and switch off the engine. For the first time since leaving Shadow, the vibration beneath my feet disappears, and the sudden silence inside the car feels wrong. Engines continue rumbling outside as the rest of our section pulls in around us, doors opening and closing, voices carrying across the forecourt, but inside the car there's suddenly nothing to distract me from the fact that my mate is miles behind us.Lincoln reaches for his door.“Wait.”He pauses and looks at me as I pull my phone from the holder.Nothing.No message from
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Tobias's POVMy earpiece crackles as we approach the rest stop, Commander Henry's voice cutting through the quiet inside the car as he runs through the instructions again. We're divided into sections, each led by one of Linc's unit, so we're not trying to cram eight hundred people into the same fucking place at once. The warriors have already moved ahead and locked down a truck stop with a food court, toilets and enough pumps to refuel several vehicles at a time. Each section is to pull in, refuel whatever vehicles need it, grab food to go, take a bathroom break, swap drivers where needed and then get the fuck out again so the next group can move through. Once we're done, we're to rendezvous at the natural park farther up the road and wait there for the rest of the convoy to regroup before we continue.Commander Henry hopes we can be back on the road in no more than an hour. I suspect it'll be more like two. Moving eight hundred people anywhere quickly is apparently fucking impossible
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Tobias's POVDriving out of Shadow at the head of the convoy while Zahra remains somewhere behind me goes against every fucking instinct I have. Every mile we put between us feels wrong. Thor has been demanding I turn the car around since the moment we left her, and if there weren't hundreds of people following my fucking taillights right now, I'm not entirely sure I wouldn't.But I can feel Lincoln's emotions, and he's even more of a mess than I am. He has the added distress of leaving his home and the guilt of uprooting his entire pack.“It's going to be okay,” I murmur as I notice him squeeze his eyes closed in the passenger seat beside me.He blinks them open, and a tear leaks from the corner of one. He clears his throat but doesn't say anything.“You've made an impossible decision, one that lesser Alphas wouldn't have been able to make.”He wipes at his face and angles his head away from me, turning to look out of the window as we wind down through the packlands towards the gate,
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Zahra's POVAnd that's exactly why I can't ask him to.“They followed us from Shadow,” I say, looking out through the broken window as another distant shape moves between the trees. “They've pushed through Edwardo's people and kept coming even after the Task Force dropped their trucks back to stop them. They don't know who's in these cars, but they know we're important enough that an entire military escort stayed behind to let us escape.”“I know,” Brant says, frustration roughening his voice.“Then you know they'll follow us onto your land.”“Let them.” He says with a growl“I can’t.” I almost growl back, and silence falls on the other end.“Brant, we just evacuated Shadow to get hundreds of civilians out of the path of this army. Lincoln gave up his home to keep his people alive. I can't lead the fucking things straight into yours because I need your hospital.”“My pack is my responsibility, Zahra. Not yours. And we’re a lot better protected than shadow.”“And you're our friend.”Hi
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