I CAUGHT UP WITH LUPE in a small wooded glade ten miles away from Wolf Landing, and to my surprise it was the pack bond that alerted me to her proximity. I’d figured she’d sever the connection as quickly as possible, but perhaps the teenager wasn’t quite as fed up with our pack as I’d initially assumed. Or maybe she just wasn’t experienced enough to break the invisible tether without undue hassle. I was willing to consider even ignorance a boon after the freaky twenty-four hours we’d all been through.
“I brought your clothes,” I whispered as I tiptoed toward the n***d teenager, glancing around to make sure neither she nor I had been sighted. There weren’t any suburban cops currently breathing down our necks, so apparently my charge had acted with good sense and shifted far away from pryin
