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Finally, she drew a breath and announced, "Pierre Du Bois has escaped imprisonment Petrovksy has no clue as to his whereabouts, but I’ve picked him up with a few of his rebels that have re ahead Whichin Re and expletives as they received confirmation of the news that had been clear the ether To them this would be the reason for Caia’s frozen anxiety, to the lykans, the reason they could smell the sweat that trickled under her shirt, to the va of the pulse in her neck with his razor-sharp eyes

They would be wrong

Suddenly the double doors to Marita’s suite banged open, and in hurried a worried lookingof triuh Caia when the trace she was holding on to disappeared fro wildly until they found Marita, who rounded the table with a look of outrage pasted on her face

"How dare you barge in here uninvited?" she exclaiik to find Noble pale and beseeching "How did she get in here?"

He blanched and gestured to her "This is Blair, the warden at the containency"

Marita whipped back towards her "What is it?"

Blair gulped, s hands "Madam, I’m afraid it has come to my attention that the prisoner has escaped"

Marita snapped back as if she had been slapped "Prisoner? You ht?"

Blair nodded frantically

"Have you searched the entire Center?"

"All of it Madaust and then closed her eyes "Caia?"

Her heart sped up and she willed it to slow so that the lykans present would not hear it "Yes?"

"Can you feel the girl?"

She pretended to take a ravely "No She’s not at the Center"

"Well, where is she?"

OK, Cy, ti skills Channel Meryl Streep "I-I don’t know I-I can’t feel her," she said, pretending to be panicked by the thought

"What do you mean you can’t feel her? You told me you could find anyone in the trace?"

She pushed a few tears into the corner of her eyes, brushing her hair off her face,her hands treh!" Marita threw up her hands in exasperation Then she took a cally glanced at Blair, her voice low and terrifying "How on Gaia’s green earth did this happen?"

48 hours earlier

Avoiding Lucien was proving easy Avoiding everyone else?

Not so much

It was easy with Lucien because he was really, kind of, coht now, and he had a reason to be because she had proht at the Center On the other hand, if he wasn’t being such an idiot he would realize that she would never go back on her word and know that so orkingher motives She needed hi to build up the courage to confront Vilhelht out of prison and out of the Center was insane

IMaybe it’s ht means my trace is broken Maybe I’m the delusional one and should seek a mental health professional immediately

The truth was that she didn’t want to believe that all these people she trusted rong and she, little ol’ her, was right What about Marion and Magnus?

What about Albus?

What about her father?

Were they wrong? Did they give their lives to a lie?

Goddess it was too awful to conceive

And then she let herself feel Laila’s trace and her gut twisted

Could her trace really be so off that she would feel this sweetness froood and evil?

Ethan had certainly been evil

But was that like conde Austrians because Hitler was a soulless fiend?

My head hurts