NEVA POV
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The alarm came at 3 a.m., not the perimeter's outer layer but the inner one — Silo's newest addition, the redundant system built specifically around Ren's room.
I was out of bed before the sound had finished its first cycle, my wolf already screaming, and Ryke was half a step ahead of me, already moving toward the nursery with a speed I'd never seen from him even in the worst of this story's earlier crises.
The door was open.
Not forced — open, the way a door opens when someone who shouldn't have access has found a way to make the impossible look effortless.
My heart stopped.
The crib was empty.
"REN," Ryke's voice tore through the compound, raw and enormous, and within seconds every light in every building was on, the whole family converging on the nursery with the sp
