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Vail. The world I’d known had crumbled around me. An alpha protects her pack. Leads them.
    I’d abandoned them, but only because I’d believed it was the only way I could save them.
    was the only way I could save them.
    Jumping on Shay’s distraction, I seized the moment to stake my own claim in this fight. Despite my wariness of the Searchers, I needed their help.
    This might be the chance to get my packmates away from the Keepers.
    “Yes,” I said. “I’l do it.”
    “Cal a,” Shay began.
    “No,” I said, silencing him with a glare and flash of my teeth. “They’re right. An al iance is what I want.
    What my pack would want.”
    “Good,” Anika said.
    I thought I heard Ethan grumbling as he stalked back to the corner where he’d been sulking before Lydia and Anika arrived.
    “We could use some logistical information before we move forward,” Monroe said.
    “I’l tel you what I know,” I said. “I’m not sure how much it wil help with planning an attack.”
    “Anything wil help,” he said.
    Good.
    “But let’s start close to home. We lost two Searchers in late autumn. Do you know what happened to them?”
    Not good. I managed not to cringe. This wasn’t going to help with forging a new al iance.
    “I do.”
    One question and they’ll probably kill me if I answer it truthfully.
    “Cal a, wait.” Shay stepped closer to me, a warning note in his voice. I was certain his mind had jumped to the same dire place mine had.
    I shook my head. “If they want an al iance, they need to know who they’re making it with.” And if they want revenge, so be it. I glanced around the room.
    The doors were closed. Solid, but not solid enough to withstand a Guardian crashing through them at ful speed. I can make it if I have to run.
    “But—” Shay’s fingers wrapped around my wrist.
    I ignored him. “They’re both dead.”
    Adne looked at the floor. Anika and Lydia sighed, but Connor scratched the shadow of whiskers on his jaw.
    “That’s not exactly new information, Monroe.”
    “We knew about Kyle,” Monroe said quietly. “He was among the Fal en. But we needed confirmation on Stuart. No one is counted as lost without a firsthand account of his or her death.”
    The hairs on the back of my neck stood up.
    “Firsthand?”
    “Yes,” Anika said. “That’s our protocol.”
    I wondered what they would do when they found out exactly how firsthand my view of the other Searcher’s death had been.
    “Hang on a sec.” Shay was frowning. “What are the Fal en? I read that name in The War of All Against All. Are those the things that climbed out of my uncle’s gross paintings?”
    As much as I didn’t want to, I shuddered the moment Shay mentioned the creatures that had pursued us through the cavernous hal s of Rowan Estate. The way they’d shuffled, moaned—how empty their eyes had been.
    “Yes, but we don’t have time to get into that now.”
    Monroe gave him a stern glance before turning back to me. “Now about Stuart, if you know anything . . .”
    I nodded and tried to ignore how breathless I felt.
    “What happened to our operatives, Cal a?” Anika asked. “We need to know how they were taken. Our sources in Vail don’t have any information.”
    “Sources?” I frowned.
    The look on Monroe’s face squashed the question the moment I’d asked it.
    “Just answer.”
    Alarm sparked in Shay’s eyes. “I real y think we need to put this in some kind of context.”
    I pul ed my wrist free of his grasp, ready to bolt or attack. “They already have the context, Shay. I’m a Guardian. They know what that means.”
    “Aw, shit,” Connor muttered. He and Lydia exchanged a glance and they both began to inch toward Ethan, whose head had taken a deceptively innocent tilt as he watched me.
    Adne looked at Connor sharply. “What?”
    He shook his head to silence her, keeping his eyes on me.
    I swal owed hard. “I was with Shay outside Efron Bane’s club when your men came after