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muttered. “I don’t trust anyone anymore.”
    Serus gave his instructions to the eager vamps, then set them up in beds along the far wall. “Remember to look injured and sick. We don’t want anyone to know what we’re doing here.”
    “Got it,” they both called out.
    “Good, then keep it down. We’ll be leaving soon and will check out where this leads. You keep an eye on the elevator and report any activity to Motre.” He glared at them. “No heroics. If something happens, call Motre.”
    *
    David barreled around the corner to find the ancients waiting impatiently. “What did you do, go to the Council to find her?” Goran asked in disgust. “We could have put an end to the war by now.”
    David laughed. “No such luck. Tessa and Cody are pulling a team together to organize the evacuation through this elevator. She wants to come down with us to the lower level. She says that Deanna’s memories identify the second garage as the headquarters to the blood farm.”
    Serus bounded forward. “What?”
    “Yes. They should be here any moment.”
    “They’d better be here now or we’ll leave them behind,” Goran said.
    “Whoa. No, you’re not,” Tessa cried, running down the hallway toward them.
    “Tessa!” Serus opened his arms to close around her as she jumped toward him. After a quick peck on her cheek, he grinned at Goran and said, “Now we’re ready to go.”
    “Sir.” Cody stood at Goran’s side. “I think we’ve got a few minutes to get down, but if we don’t go now, then we are going to be inundated with vamps trying to leave.”
    “Now then,” Goran growled, stepping into the elevator. “Are you coming or am I going alone?”
    It was Tessa’s laughter that bounced around the elevator as she stepped up beside Goran. “I missed you too,” she said with a big grin on her face.
    In a very uncharacteristic sign of affection, she reached up and kissed Goran on the cheek.
    And damn, Serus watched in amusement as color washed up his best friend’s cheek. It was a good thing she’d done. Goran would never admit it, but he was as hooked on her as everyone else was.
    He snickered.
    Goran pressed the close door button with more force than necessary. And ignored Serus. But as Serus glanced over, he caught Goran glancing back at Tessa, an affectionate look in his eye.
    Damn, his girl was good. She’d tamed the worst of the growly bears.
    *
    Wendy woke up and stretched. Her body groaned as she straightened her back. Too many hours on the computer. She sat up and looked around. Ian slept soundly, his back to her. She wouldn’t mind a few more hours herself. Snuggling back down, she closed her eyes…and they popped open instantly. There was something wrong. Something she needed to do. Or check on.
    She frowned, letting her mind roll over the actions she’d taken before her nap. Sian had set up the computers to do something while they’d slept.
    And they’d left Rhia alone with the computers.
    As she lay there, unease snaked around inside. She couldn’t do it. She couldn’t go back to sleep. She had to go and check on Rhia and the computer search. See if there’d been any results yet.
    And most of all, to see if Rhia was doing okay.
    She slipped out of the room, careful to not disturb Ian. He needed his rest. So did Sian. Wendy walked down to the computer room. The hallway appeared deserted, her footsteps giving off an odd clipped echo as she walked toward the computer room. She stopped at the doorway, but there was no sign of either Sian or Rhia. Wendy could hope that Rhia had followed their lead and lay down to get some rest as well.
    She walked into the empty room to find the computers asleep. She brought the main two up so she could check out the searches Sian had set up before she left.
    The machine blinked the results. Interesting. Wendy sat down and quickly became immersed in the names of those reported missing or dead and those with no report, then cross-referenced them to those