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I blinked, unsure of what I’d just heard.
“Miko?”
“What did you say?”
“She said she’ll lend us the bike. If you can ride it, that is. For the greater good.”
Handed the keys to a motorbike, given a somewhat clear path to Dunstable? What sort of fool would turn that down? And I wasn’t about to reject it. I just wanted a sign of my people, a hint of?—
“Oh my stars!”
I jumped up at the volume in his tone.“What happened?”
The connection broke.
“Ori?”
Oh, God. I’d dawdled, squandering a chance to?—
“Miko!”
For a moment, I thought Orion was back inside my head. But that wasn’t his voice, not even close.
It was Paige’s.
She ran through the trees, the others on her heels. She crashed into me, shaking in my arms. “You’re safe.”
I hugged her, stroking her back as she sobbed into my chest. “Thank God you’re here.”
The others slowed their pace on the approach, Basil and Trev both bending over at the same time to catch their breath.
Here was my sign.
I ended the hug. “I have to go.”
“What? Why?” James wondered.
“Sir?” Paige said, wiping her tears.
“Orion’s back. He has the honey. But something’s happening.” I broke into a run. “Get somewhere safe! I’m ending this.”
“Sir!”
“Miko!”
I shifted into wolf form, leaving their cries behind me.
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
ORION
Given the state of Lance’s face, he shouldn’t be standing on top of a lorry, let alone pointing a rifle at us.
What happened to him?
His eyes were pink.
“The bullet won’t get through,” Tilda said, cold fury in her tone.
