I kicked at Kason's front door, the rush of my heartbeat as loud as the wind, and jabbed my elbow into his doorbell without releasing it. "Let me in!" I spun around to make sure I hadn't been followed even though I'd lost the sound of the tapping shoes in a neighborhood I'd never been to. I'd walked and walked in the arctic night to lose the tail that maybe I'd only imagined was following me.

Either way, once I filled Kason in on everything I'd found out, surely he would stop ...