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"Nice ested it was anything but

Archer was the one to reply, and despite Ali’s warning, he directed the words at me, not her

"Six days"

I turned Ali turned We walked back to the car in silence I knee were up against now, better than I had before, knew at least part of what they had in their arsenal I’d marked the way they looked at and interacted with each other It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that they considered Caroline to be the biggest threat

I climbed into the car Ali cli, this recon mission had assured ht the coven, there would be bloodshed, and a large portion of it would be ours If we gave in to their demands and let them have Lucas, he would be better off dead

Six days

I had less than a week to decide between two evils Less than a week to find out what kind of deal the coven had made with Shay

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

THE RIDE BACK TO THE WAYFARER WAS SIGNIFIcantly quieter than the ride out Ali seemed calmer somehow, like the interaction, which had sent a rush of adrenaline surging throughon to all day

Instead of thinking about Shay, or the coven, or the partly unhinged aiting for ht about Ali and the way she was handling all of this We’d been hypnotized A natural hunter had pulled a knife on me Violence had been proroup, fa it in stride

She’d pushed them and prodded them and borne their presence in her n of weakness, any sign of fear

Any surprise

People are allowed to have secrets, Bryn Even from you

The words Ali had said in our conversation about Chase ca this well--too well--and I couldn’t shake the feeling that she was keeping secrets from me, the same way she’d never bothered to mention that Callum could see the future

The same way I hadn’t told her when I went off to hunt the Rabid

The sa to tell her that I already had plans to go on a second recon mission Alone

The coven had a deal with Shay I needed to knohat it was, and I wasn’t going to find out by letting my foster mother ask the questions For whatever reason, she knew psychics, but I knew alphas, and I couldn’t i for soine that the olf Senate would be happy to find out that one of the pack alphas hadhumans Once I found out what the deal was, once I had proof, Ito hold over Shay’s head And if I had the backing of the Senate, I ht be able to convince the coven to back off

"What are you thinking?" Ali asked After ten minutes of silence, I was surprised to hear her voice

"I’ainst theand watched the mounds of snow pass by as we drove "Yours Mine"

"If you want to know so, Bryn, just ask"