United Under Siege

Everyone in the room moved at once.

Boris was already at the front door before Lenora finished processing what Stefan had said. Declan pulled back from the window instinctively, the kind of reflex that came from a year of learning to read a room's danger level in half a second.

"How long," Lenora said to Stefan.

"I noticed the tail three blocks from here," Stefan said. "I couldn't lose them withou