Gunnar’s POV

Finding Anna should have felt like a relief. That was the plan.

Get in, locate her, make sure she was safe, and get her out before anything else went wrong. It was supposed to be simple, something I could handle without complications.

But the second I actually found her, something felt off.

I didn’t show it. I couldn’t afford to.

She stood a few steps away from me when I first saw her, and for a moment I thought maybe because she didn’t recognize me, didn’t react the way I expected her to.

“You’re Anna right?,” I said, keeping my voice steady because I could already smell that...