Mated To My Mate's Worst Enemy (ARIA) novel Chapter 651

Chapter 651

KAEL

The evenness was the specific kind that existed when everything above the even was being held by something that was working very hard and was not going to stop working.

"Reka," Solander said.

"The clinic they're using is on the estate's western perimeter," Reka said, already at the maps. "It's the facility Cassium uses for—" she paused. "For various purposes. It has equipment. It has healers."

"Are they Ivory's kind of healers," I said.

"No," Reka said.

"Then they're not useful," I said.

"Kael—" Jordan started.

"We have Margo's compounds in the vehicle," I said. "The bag Nina had. Does it have what's needed for—"

"I need to know what's needed," Nina said, already at the bag.

"Wolfsbane exposure at the level of a direct hit," I said. "To a wolf who's been restored for three days and whose body wasn't calibrated for wolfsbane at the wolf concentration."

Nina was going through the bag.

"The thorough version," she said, to herself. "Unknown exposure. Thorough." She found something. "Yes. Ivory packed this specifically. It's the—it's the one she uses for significant wolfsbane exposure."

"The three-day version," Jordan said.

"Four hours," Nina said. "The full removal."

"She needs to be breathing for the four-hour version to work," Jordan said.

The room was quiet.

"Ian," I said.

Ian looked at me.

"How fast can we move," I said.

"On Cassium's estate," Ian said.

"Yes," I said.

"With Derek's search perimeter potentially repositioning after they've recovered Ivory," Ian said. "With the estate's full security active rather than meeting-reduced—"

"How fast," I said.

"Kael," Solander said.

I looked at him.

"The estate is fortified," he said. "Going in hot, without the plan—"

"Going in without the plan was always possible," I said. "The plan was for the document. The document matters. The document is what neutralizes the Convention challenge and gets Ivory the legal protection she needs for afterward." I held his gaze. "But if there's no afterward, the document is a piece of paper in a compartment behind a panel on a wall."

Solander was quiet.

"Sol," I said. "How fast."

He looked at me for a long time.

Then he looked at Ian.

Ian looked at the communicator.

At the maps.

At the window where the outside was still dark and the morning had not arrived yet.

"Thirty minutes," Ian said. "If we move now. If we use everything Solander has here and we move in two waves — one for the document, one for Ivory. Simultaneous. Not sequential."

"Is that doable," I said.

"It's doable," Ian said. "It is not the plan we had. It is a different plan."

"It's not a plan," Reka said. "It's a direction."

"Direction with resources is enough," I said.

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