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“Quick,” I said to those closest to me. “There’s a hole beneath the barrier. We must crawl under it to escape.”
Excited exhales bleated around me. Children sobbed, and their mothers comforted them. Anticipation streamed off the shifters, filling me with hope.
Was Phantom’s father even going to be able to make it under the fence in his feeble state?
My mind kept swinging between thoughts of our escape and the safety of Shadow and the resistance.
Rumbling growls and snarls stripped me from my thoughts. I glanced at the shifters beside me, taking in their twisting faces, the way their lips were peeled back baring long, sharp teeth.
“Quiet,” I said. What’s going on?”
My gaze followed the line of someone’s pointing finger.
Within a hundred feet of our escape route, guards stepped out of the shadows, accompanied by Yarn, the ratty-looking shifter who had provided crucial information to Grimm and the council for this mission.
My heart wedged in my throat.
“That’s her,” Yarn said in his weaselly voice. “The one the queen wants.”
Traitor! Coward! Scumbag! Just how many more creeps worked for my stepmother’s purse?
If we’d been intercepted, then the resistance had walked into an ambush, and I was helpless to warn them.
