chapter 53

Valen We’re all the way on the other side of the mountain from where we’re meeting with my father. We’re still about an hour away because the storm is making visibility a real bitch. Dion and a few other men are traveling in the cars behind us as we try to get to my father. When the mind-link opens up, Marcus comes through. Stupidly, I open it, allowing Tatum in on the link, not expecting the news we get. ‘How far away are you?’ Marcus asks. ‘About an hour away still, this storm is fucking terrible,’ I tell him. My windscreen wipers are going a hundred miles an hour, and the road is barely visible, even to my enhanced eyesight. We’re going to have a hell of a time finding anything out there if it doesn't blow over soon. ‘Your father and John have headed in,’ Marcus tells us. ‘They were supposed to wait for us,’ I growl, annoyed they would be so reckless and enter forsaken territory without backup. My father, at least, should know better. I know John isn't in the right headspace at the