Chapter Eleven

“What will happen if he breaks out?”

“It would be good if we get there before that happens,” was all he said.

They left the expressway, and he slowed to the posted speed limit. The only sign of his impatience was the rhythmic beat of his fingers on the steering wheel. When he pulled up in front of the mansion, she jumped out of the SUV and ran to the front door. He didn’t appear to hurry, but somehow he was there before her and opened the door. She ran down the hall and took the cellar stairs three at a time, Brian at her shoulder.

The lack of noise was not reassuring, Usually the only way to tell the safe room from the basement guest rooms was the steel door and frame.

But great plaster chunks had been torn off the wall on either side, revealing the silver-and-steel bars that had been embedded in the wall. The wall paper from inside the room hung down in strips like a curtain, keeping Lauren from seeing inside.

There were three of the pack in human form standing in front of the doo