None of the lights were on. Cori must have gone to bed already and the teens were gone. It left me with a pit in my stomach, thinking about how I’d had to send Emily away. What kind of parental figure was I when I couldn’t keep her safe? She’d called in the morning to reassure me she was fine and her teachers were emailing her homework assignments as I’d requested. Lucas had taken her and Hunter to his house in Juneau. Fallon had sent two of his most trusted guards there to watch over them, though he didn’t think they’d need the protection. I still felt like I’d failed her in some way by not being able to keep her in Fairbanks. She shouldn’t have had to leave. Kerbasi didn’t say a word as he headed for his shack behind the house. He looked tired and there were paw prints on his the back of his green shirt. I made a mental note to ask Paula to let me see the latest video footage of him the next time I visited. Once the guardian was out of sight, I headed for the woods next to the house.
