Chapter 153

Harper

I looked at her and waited.

The chamber felt impossibly quiet, like even the stone walls were holding their breath. My pulse thudded in my ears, slow and heavy, each beat stretching the moment thinner and thinner.

“She’s…” the leader began, then paused.

That single hesitation made my stomach tighten.

“She’s in the Eastern Pines.”

For a second, the words didn’t land. They just hovered betwee