The more complex removal — the legal process, the evidence Emory had accumulated, what happened to a man who had arranged the taking of an Alpha's child two decades ago — that was a longer conversation, one that would require pack law specialists and a hearing process and the full weight of Emory Vane arriving in the city with his resources and his twenty-two years of careful documentation.
But the immediate threat was neutralized.
By six PM, Dax and I were in the car.
Not going anywhere in particular, I understood. He'd said: I need to drive. I'd understood this to mean he needed to do something with his hands while the day finished processing, and I'd gotten in the car without being asked twice.
We went north. Through the city and out of it, into the particular nowhere-ness of the ou
