The moment Brax saw the coordinates every trace of patience disappeared from his face and whatever restraint he had managed to hold onto since Talia vanished evaporated completely. “We leave now.” Brax said. Nobody argued, not even Blade because everyone understood the situation. If there was even a small chance Talia was at that church and we couldn’t afford to waste time. The convoy rolled out less than twenty minutes later. Weapons loaded, radios checked and vehicles packed. The atmosphere felt tense enough to snap I sat in the passenger seat of Drake’s truck while the church coordinates glowed from my phone screen. Neither of us spoke much and the road stretched ahead beneath a dark Ohio sky and every mile seemed to make Brax more restless. His truck remained at the front

