Chapter One Hundred and Eighty Two
The instruction was that I remained here to make sure the soldiers had a safe passage, but I couldn’t wait here; some might have heard the sind, while my gun had a silencer, theirs. didn’t.
I walked into the pack. Everything seemed familiar; I hated being back here; I hated how this felt so much like home.
Soldiers paraded nearby, their footsteps and loud chatter drowning out the sound of my own. I moved swiftly, darting between trees until I reached a more secluded spot, where I finally stopped.
Now all I had to do was wait for the soldiers to return.
Zed did trust his soldiers, and so I had to have some faith in them too.
Gabriel should be arriving anytime soon with the vehicles to pick us up, this way we wouldn’t be easily traced. I pulled open the map. He would wait some distance away, so as not to be spotted by the Nightshade pack patrollers. But the problem was that he may have to trespass on another pack’s land.
One hour turned to two.
I didn’t know how long I would have to wait, but I guess everything should be done before
dawn.
Four hours had gone by and still no sign of them. The night had gotten eerily quiet.
At the fifth hour, I knew something must be wrong. I could just turn back and walk away, but then… that shouldn’t even be an option.
So here I was, going straight for the pack house, because I knew that must be the first place. they would check on, but before I got there, I saw a figure approaching. It was one of the pairs. I had sent in.
“What happened?” I asked them.
They panted heavily, so I gave them a moment.
“We got nothing,” one of the men says
“What?”
“There is nothing in there–no information,” the other man said.
“Someone is coming,” I muttered, pulling them to a corner; it hadn’t been a member of the nightshade pack, but two of my soldiers. “Over here,” I called out to them, and they came in our direction.
“We have to leave now,” the man said, his eyes wide with panic.
1/2
Chapter One Hundred and Eight Two
“What about the others?”
“Three men had been killed, my partner too; it was like they knew we were coming.”
“But that is impossible.”
“We need to leave.”
“There are still three left.” I argued.
“They’re at the Safe, planting a bomb.”
“What? Our escape should be their top priority…
Just then, a loud explosion shook the air, followed by a thick smoke.
“Go!” I ordered, and they ran towards the borders; just the way we came, I followed after them.
Gabriel met us at the borders..
“What of the others?” He questioned
“I would go get them.”
“No…”
“Get the rest out of here; I’ll go get them.”
I returned, but by now every soldier in the pack had been alarmed. The smoke rose high, I went in the direction of the safe house. It was impossible to sneak through that mass of people, and my wings would attract too much attention so I couldn’t fly either. I took cover, and just then I noticed I wasn’t alone. Two of my soldiers were there.
“What of the last one?” I asked
“He’s dead… it was… it was the…bomb.”
The man kept on muttering things I couldn’t make up.
“We have to go now” I ordered.
“Save yourself” the other one said and only then did I notice his scarred leg, the fire must have gotten him too.
“The bomb wasn’t part of the plan” I said to him
“They killed my family, with their Safe’room gone, they would need even more weapons to attack and that would buy us time“. He says. He was right.
Yet.
I couldn’t help but desperately hope no one was close by when the bomb went off.
