SLOANE Maybe I was overreacting. Maybe the fact that Kade wasn't at the pack during the attack shouldn't have mattered as much as it did. People left the compound all the time. Business happened. Errands needed running. Supplies needed collecting. Not everyone could be present every single second of every single day. But this wasn't just anyone. This was Kade. I expected him to be with his brother when everything went to hell. I expected him to be standing next to Damon while chaos erupted around them, fighting side by side the way twins were supposed to. I expected him to be with Rika, with the other pack members, doing something, anything, while everyone else ran helter skelter trying to survive a full Russian assault on our territory. Of course people went out. But why did it have

