I yanked against his hand, my boots splashing back into the center of the stream, the freezing water soaking through my leather socks. "I am not going to your rogue bunker, Xavier. Silas has three vanguards stationed at the upper terrace. If I’m not back in my quarters before the morning guard rotation, he’ll lock the entire estate down and move the vanguards to the river." "Silas’s guards are asleep at the switch, and your grandfather is a politician, not a warlord," Xavier snapped, yanking me forward until I stumbled into his chest, the cold water splashing up against our knees. He looked over his shoulder toward the dark ridge, his claws extending with a sharp, metallic click. "If you go back to that mansion right now with your scent leaking like a beacon, you’re setting a trap for yourself. Look at the western ridge, Raine. Use your eyes." I turned my head, my vision shifting into the sharp, hyper-focused spectrum of my wolf. Through the thick canopy of the pines, two miles awa
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