KERES POV
By the time we reached Bloodclaw territory, Marcellus’s car would probably look like it had been borrowed from a crime scene and then driven through a war.
Which, to be fair, was not inaccurate.
We had found where he and Perse’s family had left the cars and decided Marcellus would be proud of our very non-conventional way of starting the engine.
As for our in-laws?
Who the f**k knew.
I had worked on the lock while Thane held Perse in his arms, silent and bloody and looking one bad breath away from tearing the whole forest apart. Aiden had focused on doing his “magic” with the wires under the steering wheel, because apparently hotwiring a car counted as a reasonable post-monster-battle activity now.
Then we drove through the night, following dusty roads until we found the h
