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substantially over the past decade. He stretched out his senses for that one presence: Asta. She was sex and sin, temptation in a sweet package of soft curves and attitude. She made him think of chocolate - covered strawberries with whipped cream on top. He wanted nothing more than to lick all the cream off and take a bite.
    But she was also sweet and sassy, full of innocent concern and hidden empathy. She held a lot of good within her right alongside the bad. So far the good was stronger , and she showed it every day with small but meaningful gestures. The way she asked about Isadora and always made sure there were enough cookies for his brothers were only small samples of her thoughtfulness. He feared the day the demon side grew stronger.
    With a shudder , he flew into The Woodlands. Yet another small town run amok. He followed the main highway south, stretching his senses west and east. The light hint of evil intentions and violence that always permeated a mass of human population spiked here and there. Normally he’d investigate but this time he flew on, Asta his only concern.
    By the time he flew past the freeway that made a loop around the innermost part of Houston he was almost frantic. There had been no sign of her whatsoever, as if she’d left the city completely. He landed in front of city hall and found Mike waiting for him , empty-handed.
    “There’s no sign of her,” Mike said.
    Rafe couldn’t hold his emotions in. He threw his head back and hollered his frustration to the clouds and prayed the Source would help them once more. “She has to be somewhere,” he said. “She wouldn’t have just left.”
    Mike simply watched him in silence as Rafe fought the urge to start ripping trees from the ground. The strength of his emotions gave him pause. When had Asta started to mean so damn much to him?
    “I’ll call in the others and we’ll meet at my house. But it’s probably best if we leave Zerach out of this,” Mike said.
    “Thank you.”
    Mike nodded and took to the sky again. Rafe watched him fly away but had no idea what to do next. An unfamiliar numbness struck him from the neck down, as if his entire body was weighed down with lead. For the first time ever he simply had no clue which direction to step next, or even what to think. After a moment he realized he was feeling true fear for the first time.
    “Asta, where are you?”
    He shut his eyes and put all of his energy into his senses. He reached for her essence in the same way he’d find one of his brothers, hoping against hope it might work. Mike called him out of his ruminations. Everyone has gathered.
    On my way.
    He flew back to Mike’s house and walked in to find his four brothers waiting. Mike and Cam each had a beer in their hands. Uri and Sel stood empty-handed. All gazes turned his way.
    “Thank you for coming,” he said. “We need to search the city and the suburbs.”
    “You’re certain she wouldn’t be any farther away?” Sel asked.
    “Yes. I can almost…feel her. It’s odd, not like with you guys, but similar. I just can’t get a handle on the feeling to know exactly where she is.”
    They all nodded in understanding even though Rafe wasn’t sure he made any sense.
    “Eleanor is calling around to hospitals right now to make sure she wasn’t wheeled into an ER in the past couple of hours,” Cam said.
    A pain pierced Rafe’s chest at the thought of Asta being hurt. He rubbed at it absently. “Good. But unless she was struck unconscious I doubt she’d allow anyone to take her into an ER. She hates hospitals.”
    “I did a preliminary check, but since you know Galveston best why don’t you head that way,” Mike asked Sel .
    “I searched a bit on my way down from Huntsville,” Cam said. “Nothing.”
    “Maybe you should—” Rafe froze as a familiar , unpleasant feeling struck him. His brothers grimaced as they felt it , too.
    “A portal has been opened,” Mike said. “A large one.”
    “Shit.”
    They ran