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not. Renee is the softer of the two, but you both are far more stubborn than either will ever admit. We have something to do here and war among us will not get that done. So do you not both think this can wait a bit?”
    “You tell ‘em, Garvin.”
    “Stay out of it, Derek,” Brandon added stepping back.
    “He is correct, but soon we will have to come to an understanding,” Jacob said and turned to go into the dark murky hall.
    “Yeah, well every time I think we have it worked out you start acting like an…”
    “Renee,” Jessie said taking my arm. “Please.”
    I felt the shame grow as she smiled at me. She knew him better than anyone on this earth, and knew it was time for me to shut my mouth. The flames took down many webs as we walked on the uneven stony ground that was covered in dirt, bones, and small rodents. It wasn’t until Jacob slid back the heavy iron door at the end of the very long hall that the intense smell slammed into us. Derek was the first to lose his meal, and I was second to follow. I thought that I had seen and smelled the worse in Yvette’s dungeon, but I was wrong. This individual made her look like a fairy princess. Body parts were covering the floor; half decade, to bare bones. The cages were full of rotting corpses. We didn’t find one living thing in that first room of a very demented man’s perversion.
    It was the next room that we stepped into that took my breath away in a different way. Many gasps of shock came from all of us as we entered. Bodies of women were hanging from hooks that hung from chains that were mounted to the ceiling. Small puddles of blood formed under each of them caused by the crimson liquid that dripped from between their legs. “She’s alive,” Sydney yelled. He was trying to lift the woman up so Brandon could unhook her, but when Brandon got to her back he fell backwards, falling to the blood covered flood. She wasn’t bound by chains; the hook was sunk deep into her back.
    “How do we fix this?” Brandon asked getting up, wiping his hands on the front of his pants.
    “My baby,” she cried in a soft voice, yet heard by us all.
    “We’ll find your baby,” Tammy said going to her. “This is going to hurt, but we have to get you down.
    The nude woman nodded. Her face was pretty; visible even through the filth that covered her. When Jacob pulled the hook out, she screamed so hard and loud that I jumped. Thankfully, she passed out before they placed her on a table that was in the center of the room. As she was coming to she was saying a name that we knew well. “Jamous,” she spoke once again and chills formed all over my body. We had found his daughter, Lilly. That’s when I prayed that she would survive and that we would find her baby.
    “Looks like she delivered very recently,” Tammy said after checking her over.
    “Today,” the girl whispered with what little breath she had.
    “Were you up there?” Derek blurted out, pointing back at the swinging hook.
    “Shut the hell up, Derek.” Brandon pushed him backwards.
    “What?”
    “Use a little compassion,” Jessie added then went to the woman.
    “You are, Lilly?” she asked.
    “I am,” Lilly said rolling her head to see her better. “My baby?”
    “Your father waits just outside. You must be strong for him. Live, and we will go get your baby,” Jessie proclaimed so softly that it brought tears to my eyes.
    “The hook missed her spine, but she’s lost a lot of blood,” Tammy said rolling her back over, as Lilly cried out in pain.
    “What happens if we feed a normal our blood,” I asked.
    “No!” Jacob said grabbing my wrist. “You must not.”
    “Why? It might give her strength.”
    “It is against the rules.”
    “Whose rules, Jacob? We make our own now, remember? Now tell me, will it kill her, or will she get stronger?”
    He stood silent, so I bit my wrist. “You must not,” he demanded.
    “Then tell me why.”
    “Because she will crave you, until the day she