Chapter 69- The boy

"Yesterday, we had another attack." Sage took a deep breath and ignored Sophie’s heated glare.

"Our enforcers were stumped. All the doors were locked from the inside, the apartment was twenty floors up. Security cameras showed nobody entering or exiting the only lift in the building on his floor."

"Is this inside the pack?" Sophie asked, disregarding Sage's invisible emotional outbursts.

"No, this happened on the border, near the cabin of my formal patrol team. Shenna’s and her family’s cabin.”

Sophie's eyes widened. "Are they Okay? Is the child—"

"They are fine, but the neighboring apartments on the northern side were attacked."

Her jaw clenched before she responded, "Was it demon puncture wounds?" Sophie asked.

"Good guess. Yes, several, in pairs. Here," Sage said, gesturing with two fingers at the insides of Sophie’s denim-covered thighs, just above the knee. "Femoral artery. Also, here." He put her fingers above the neckline of her cream-colored sleeveless wrap top. "Carotid arter