Chapter 51

Sandy slowed when he realized Thad couldn’t keep up, but Jaecar was out of sight in a few seconds. Damn, they were fast when they wanted to be.

“Over here!”

Thad changed direction a fraction, and soon he came out in a small clearing. It was more like a couple of trees had been cleared away than a natural clearing, and there was a hole in the ground with a heavy stone lid on top. Thad would’ve guessed it to be an old well if he’d walked past it alone.

Jaecar pushed off the lid while Ric and Leo remained in their shifted forms.

“What is it?” Thad tried to ignore being out of breath. He’d believed he was in pretty good shape, working out a few times a week, jogging almost every morning, but clearly, he’d been wrong—which walking up the stairs to their office should have prepared him for.

“A root cellar.” Jaecar was on his knees and put his head down the hole.

“It’s not a root cellar, it’s a hole.”

Sandy touched the small of his back. “We had a root cellar like that back home.”