The extraction team left at midnight. Six wolves including Caleb, moving fast and quiet through territory that wanted them dead.

All I could do was wait.

Darius found me on the eastern balcony an hour later, staring at nothing. The bond hummed between us, restless with tension neither of us knew how to release.

"You should sleep."

"Can't. Won't be able to until they're back safe."

He moved beside me. Close enough I could feel his warmth against the night chill. "Caleb knows what he's ...