“This is it,” she whispered.
“This is what?” Nathan asked.
“They’ve taken to living underground,” Saxon said. “If there’s a bunker under here then there has to be a door.”
“How are we going to find that?” Killean asked.
“No, you don’t understand,” Elyse said and pointed at her feet. “Thisis it.”
Bending, she grasped some snow and started pulling it out of the way with her non-casted hand. Saxon knelt across from her and tried to catch her hand, but she waved him away. Giving up on trying to stop her, he dug in and threw more snow aside.
They cut through the snow to discover a layer of leaves and dirt beneath. Saxon leaned back and rested his hands on his knees, but Elyse refused to give up. It washere. Her fingers ached from the cold and dirt caked her nails as she tossed more aside.
“Let me do it,” Saxon said.
She refused to stop digging as every handful caused her blood to sing until she was sure they would soon hear the cacophony it created in her veins. The only way to make it stop was to find what she sought, and then…
Her fingers clinked against something metal. Across from her, Saxon’s hands froze in the dirt before he ripped another layer away. Silver glinted in the sunlight when he exposed a large patch of metal beneath them.
“Here.” Her shoulders slumped as the song in her blood finally stopped. “It’shere.”
“It is,” Asher murmured and knelt beside her to pull more snow out of the way.
Declan and Nathan bent to help.
“It’s a door,” Saxon said when they exposed more of it.
It was a door, but there was no handle to enter the flat surface built into the ground.
“They’re not coming in and out of here,” Killean said. “So where is their main entrance or entrances?”
“From the looks of it, this is an exit they never expected anyone to find,” Ronan said. “That’s why there are no cameras in this area.”
“Wouldn’t they have prepared for the possibility Elyse would find them?” Nathan asked.
“As far as they know, she can only track someone for a short, limited time. They probably think they’re safe from her,” Saxon said.
“Or they have no fear of us,” Ronan said.
Elyse couldn’t imagine anyonenotfearing them. Even if she did not know their world, she would get out of their way if she saw them coming down the street. But then, the Savages were just as ruthless.
“They’re like rats,” she murmured.
“That they are,” Saxon said.
Elyse could sense her dad, but what condition would they find him in, and how many of those bastards were down there with him? What if she’d led them all to their deaths? What if she’d ledSaxonto his death?
She seized Saxon’s hand and squeezed it as she tried to get her rising terror under control.
“Can you find another way in?” Asher asked her.
“I don’t know where orifthere are other ways in. I just know aboutthisone,” she said. “Thisis where I was led.”
“Can we get in there?” Killean asked.
Elyse shrugged; she didn’t know why he assumed she’d have the answer to his question.
“No matter what it takes, we’re getting in there,” Ronan said. He pulled out his phone, hit a button, and after a few seconds said, “We found it. Meet us where I showed you on the map and bring all the weapons.”
