Chapter 333

XENOIS I stood in my office, staring at the phone in my hand for a solid minute after Zade hung up, trying to process everything he'd just told me. My parents had been kidnapped by a coalition led by Jerome Thorne—the brother of the nightwalker we currently held prisoner. They were being held somewhere near the Silvercrest nest, probably being tortured for crimes they'd committed forty years ago during the territorial wars. And I had twelve hours to wait before mounting a rescue operation. Twelve hours. Seven hundred and twenty minutes for my parents to suffer at the hands of people who'd spent decades planning their revenge. My wolf was howling inside me, demanding action, demanding I shift and run toward the mountains and tear apart anyone standing between me and my family. Every alpha instinct I had screamed that waiting was wrong, that hesitation meant failure, that real leaders acted immediately to protect their own. But I also knew Zade was right. Going in blind, with no backup,