20 Chapter 19

Vivienne wiped sweat off her brow with the back of her hand. It was a muggy night on the island, and the temperature didn t help her nerves. She felt overwhelmed and frantic, but the Lycans were, at least on the surface, calm and efficient, another barracks of men emptying into the underground complexes along with the male cubs relocating down with Jace s pack in complex 5, which was also known as the cliff complex.

There had been a debate about securing the female Lycans in a bunker, but Eli had decided that it was better for them to have access to the jungle. "They need to see that they are free now," he had told her. "And they need to be able to walk out of doors previously locked to them."