Markus P O V ‘Alpha?’ Evergreen’s mind link pushes me awake. ‘Evergreen? What’s happening?’ I said while thinking, ‘This had better be an emergency.’ ‘Guardian Moon has activated their lockdown measures. I’ve patched into their cameras and their gates were rammed down by SUVs. They’re making their way to the Packhouse,’ he said. Shit. We’ve been trying to find these lab guys before they found Nat. It looks like we failed. There’s no one else that would be attacking Helios. He had no enemies and, as a newly sanctioned pack, he was protected by the council for a year. No pack would be stupid enough to try to take on a pack under the protection of the council. It would be like declaring war against every sanctioned pack in the United States. I looked down briefly at my still sleeping Cel