Lucky’s POV, the morning after:
“None of us slept tonight, but we have to follow our plan,” Sam tells the pack. We are in the main house with the Triad. We’ve lost most of our gear, but given what equipment the village could spare. Captain Black is pale and mostly mutters to himself, but suddenly he speaks up.
“But what if she comes back here? I need to stay where she knows I am,” he laments. I squeeze Mathilde’s hand, needing to feel her close. If it was her that was taken, I do not know how I would have coped. Most likely, I would have taken it worse than him.
“Then we will make sure she arrives precisely the same place you are going,” Bina, Mathilde’s grandmother, answers. “We have also sent out word that if someone finds out where she is, we will be alerted, and a message will be se
