~SINCLAIR~ It was midnight when the first bomb came in. Sin jerked awake two minutes before it happened, coming out of a nightmare like a man that just escaped drowning. "Vannie," he said, and was immediately on his feet to tug on his night trousers. He went to her room, but before he could knock, her door was open. "Alpha. I feel—" "I know," he murmured. He followed her into her chambers and reactivated the hexes Zara made. Through the pack link, he told the Keepers guarding the gate to leave. She clutched Daffodil to herself and bent herself into a fetal position on the floor, and that was when the bomb went off. It was too far away to shake the ground, but he heard the noise nonetheless. The second and third one came immediately after, d*mn near splitting his drums, and he knew it