Chapter 30 · Moonclaim - Chapter 30: Your Dad Lied Too

The clock on the corner bank read 11:10.

Fifty minutes. Fifty minutes to decide if I was walking into Alaric's trap with the one thing he actually wanted, or letting him execute a dozen kids on a live stream.

Rena was leaning against the alley wall, ash smeared across her face, coughing. "We can't go to the docks. You know that, right? He's not letting anyone walk out."

I knew. I also knew Leon might be dead under a burning building and I'd left him there.

My hands were shaking. I shoved them in my pockets and felt the cold metal edge of the key case. The Night Key. The thing my fake ID, my lab job, my entire carefully boring life had been built around hiding.

"There's another option," Rena said. She was watching me too close. "We find out who fed Alaric our route tonight. Someone told him exactly where we'd be."

"You think I don't know that?" I turned on her. "You're the one who picked the route."

Her eyes went flat. "Yeah. I did. And I told exactly three people. You, Leon, and Kade."

Kade.