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If Shiloh was at the partywhat if Jack had taken her on the way ho the unknown vamp in the car What if Shiloh had been the redheaded vamp? "Holy crap," I whispered And as the other va?

And Molly? If she knew her niece was in the city and newly risen as a vaer, would she have co Evan, in order to protect hiet me, just as her note to her husband said she intended But Molly hadn’t calledbefore and thought the best way to get s was to show up on the doorstep? And what if soot to the city?

But why? Why take her? Why take the girls? But Molly had gone back to her hotel room Slept there Orsomeone had switched the pillows Left the das Left a note Molly had been forced to write

"No" The pillows onwhite On the second visit they had been cream colored The pillows had been full of Molly’s scent, but I hadn’t bothered to sniff the sheets Soed the pillowcases, and I had been so scent-involved I hadn’t noticed it until now

It all fit And I was an idiot I cursed under my breath

I turned back to Eli and Jodi "And Leo was planning a swearing-in ceremony at his soiree, to welcome in all the new scions, but Adrianna caused a scene and soh security, so he called that part off What if--" I stopped and waved that thought away before it was fully formed I had been about to ask what if Leo was in on it, but that made no sense and Leo always made sense even if it was only vamp sense

"What if Shiloh was one of the new scions?" I asked instead "What if he didn’t know she was an Everhart? Her last name was Stone" The pieces were there, but still suspended, hanging in space Waiting forso But what? "Do you have a picture?" I asked Jodi "A picture of Shiloh?"

Jodi walked to the center whiteboard and reraph, one of three she had been studying the last ti Shiloh, probably ever since I irl in the faded photo was about fifteen, with long straight red hair and dark eyes And a pointy, not quite perfect nose I handed it to Alex and the Kid twirled his tablet so I could see the photo taken as the girls rode away froood match for Shiloh I pulled my cell and started to dial Del, but remembered that there was no reception in the bowels of NOPD’s oo room I didn’t ask permission as I picked up a landline and dialed Adelaide’s number

"Adelaide Mooney," she answered

Fury whipped throughto keep the threat out of my voice "Tell me about Shiloh Everhart Stone"

Adelaide huffed a breath "What are you? Psychic? I just put it together We had her as Shiloh E Stone She wasn’t one of Leo’s scions, but just another rescued scion from a failed blood faain and even before I asked, I saw the picture they all made, and I knew the answers "It’s allthe landline receiver to ether the moment Leo said Shoffru had come for the diamond

"The party at Guilbeau’s was hosted by one Bancyent of, or an alias of, Jack Shoffru We think he was after a lot of things, the Damours’ estate and real properties, the Damours’ scions, and when he tracked down the scions, that meant that he also had info on Shiloh And who she was before she was turned

"And he brought, to the party at Guilbeau’s, Molly Everhart, as his guest I just discovered that from one of the attendees"

My heart plu into a fast, irregular beat

"I’mI’m so sorry, Jane I should have looked into it earlier"