NathanMax waited until we were well clear of the party before he said anything, leading me down the block to where he’d parked, the noise of the house fading behind us into something more like distant static. I could still feel the alcohol humming through my system, blunting the edges of everything, but whatever Max had found out was apparently serious enough that he didn’t bother waiting for me to sober up first.“I’m all ears,” I said, leaning against the side of his car, arms crossed.“I made some calls after the thing in the woods,” Max said, glancing around the quiet street out of habit before he continued, the same reflexive caution I’d trained into every wolf under my protection since the day I took over this territory. “Called in a favor with a contact who used to run with Thornwood before he left a couple of years back. He confirmed it. They’re looking for a girl from a Specific bloodline, apparently, though he didn’t know the details just that whoever’s giving the orders wa
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