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She sat up and pushed at hi I can feel it I sense it We’re in trouble"

He drew back and scowled "What kind of trouble?"

"I think death vampires are on the way" She shook her head "A lot of death vampires"

Kerrick shook his head "Shit" He started to pace

Alison leaped frolanced out the family room slider, which faced east The ht Daould not be far behind

He looked at her "So you’re sure about this" He crossed to the other couch, grabbed his weapons harness then slid it on In a blur of motion he drew his hair back and secured it in the leather clasp

She nodded "We need to get out of here Now But Kerrick, this isn’t fair to you"

"What?" He looked like she’d slapped hier because of hed "Oh, please This is my job Shit, I can’t believe you said that" He drew his phone froain, are you absolutely sure? Because what I’ the word regi--not just one ood enough for me" He thu an eency lift Have Thorne retrieve two at this signal and ain and slid it into the pocket of his kilt He cursed He was so fucking limited in the action he could take Even if he’d had the capacity to fold Alison to another location, chances were good Greaves could track their ht on their tail When Thorne performed the fold, he had the power to block a trace

But what he really didn’t understand was how Greaves had found them in the first place The complexity of the uise Alison’s house should have prevented detection, even from Greaves, which of course ical capability So … shit

"Kerrick The regiht now Outside"

He blurred to her side and took her hands in his "We have no time You said you had a Hummer You ood to go"

She nodded

Kerrick squeezed her fingers "Just relax"

Relax? Really? She s deep breath, and concentrated She felt the vibration

Just as she appeared by the vehicle with Kerrick in front of her and his hands still holding hers, an enormous blast sounded on the other side of the house The walls shook The garage sat on the opposite side of the house, separated by a courtyard and a wing of bedrooms, which she suspected was exactly what had just saved them

"So Darian’s army just blew up the rest of my house"

Kerrick nodded then thrust a hand toward the vehicle "Get in"

She hts for the Hummer

"Maybe I should fold us somewhere else?"

"Too late Greaves’s army has a fix on you, with death vao, and believe iie uarded Then you’d be dead Right now only the call to Thorne will get us out of this"

"Lead on," she cried She vaulted around to the passenger’s side then hopped in She started to tell hi her back She pointed to the ignition and started the vehicle She could use any of her powers right now, in the presence of this warrior, and it wouldn’t e her Maybe he wouldn’t even get hurt

She turned toward the garage door and began forh her mind: No time, duck down He aimed his hand at the door, fired away, shattered the backof the Hues

The Second Earth vaarage at the devil’s own pace

He turned, skidded, and shifted into drive

He hit the accelerator

The tires squealed

He didn’t bother with the driveway He drove straight through the wire fence and the hilly open desert away frohts bounced over the terrain like a lantern swinging wildly

As her eyes adjusted, she looked around Greaves’s arround and in black co down out of the sky Some of the soldiers looked nor the hallmark beauty of their kind as well as the pale, alht wore the saladiator sandals, and weapons harnesses However, the weapon of choice involved bullets rather than blades

"Oh, God"

One good spray froame over