Chapter 22

• DEX
• As soon as I walk away, the link between Lydia and me tightens sharply. Her pain becomes mine, echoing inside me until I can hardly tell which feelings are hers and which are my own. I sense her anxiety, her longing, her fear, and I swear to myself this won’t last much longer. Once Baron is gone, the bond that keeps her chained to him will break. It has to.
• When Desmond and I reach the surface, the chill of the night wraps around us like a warning. The streets of New York glimmer faintly under the flicker of streetlights. The air smells faintly of rain and smoke. We walk toward the lot where our cars and motorcycles are parked, the ones we use when we need to move unnoticed through the city. Running in our wolf forms would be faster, but a group of wolves the size of horses charging through Manhattan would get a little too much attention.