OF COURSE, I HEADED directly toward the front door rather than the back. After all, if Celia was trying to push her customers in the other direction, that meant the bomb—if there was one—must lie outside the hallway I’d so recently walked down.
Although what exactly I planned to do once I found the offending object was a matter I hadn’t entirely figured out. After all, it wasn’t as if I’d ever enrolled in explosives training.
Wolf? I called and was heartened when the animal rose up to join me behind our human eyes. Do you think you’d be able to smell a bomb?
Computers, electricity, smoke?
My lupine half wasn’t entirely cogent at the best of times, and she tended to lose her human words the more upset she became. The notion of our mother perishing before we had a chance to even speak wi
