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"It’s okay, you just need to kill as many vampires as you can Every dead vamp increases our odds of survival As soon as you use your sun poe’ll co as et a chance, we head for the car and we drive until daylight Sage Sanctum is twelve hours away from Gerald Harbor"

I took a bite of my roll to ease my nerves I couldn’t taste it There was too ister the taste of the egg or bacon

"Will we make it?"

"We should be able to I don’t think a vauess we’ll find out"

The conversation ended We were both too busy thinking about the night ahead Thoughts about losing Eli consumed me He would die for me, he’d already proven that

Gerald Harbor

As the car rolled to a stop outside the dilapidated warehouse about one hundred lected harbor, a shudder rolled down my spine The sun had al the land before the cool air of night began to blow No one else was here The vampires wouldn’t appear until the sun had fully set As for Mr Aleksandrov and the others … I didn’t knohere they were

"Where’s --"

Eli cutesture letting e of vaet ready We have approximately six minutes before the sun sets"

I nodded and openedI had stashed two stakes at the base of it I poured a few ite onto the floor of the car as well as the photo of h rasped the two stakes and tucked them nicely into the back waistband of my tracksuit

"Two minutes," Eli called

I closedon the sun I needed to absorb as ood, but it orth a try

When the warmth that usually filled my chest from the sun faded away, I kneas ti on the front his car

"Are you nervous?" I asked

He shrugged "I’ve been doing this for a long time Nerves don’t tend to pop up any forhappened Then, Lucian stepped out from behind the warehouse Hunter and Liam followed closely behind I was confused Why had Lucian showed up with only two extras? Where were the other eighteen? Lucian wasn’t du the place, watching his back I wasn’t going to be able to kill them all I needed theo," Lucian called

Eli and I walked over to hi closely behind us I wanted to kill them now, but if I did, I’d miss any vampires that were inside the factory I would have wasted uardians could take on forty-plus vampires

We stepped onto the cracked concrete of the rundoarehouse The distinctive odor of rusty nails and ed us over to the other side of the room

I stopped in my tracks "Perhaps Eli should wait outside?"

Lucian chuckled "No" He pushed

"I just want this to go as set frustrated over soht try and intervene You have at least eighteen va the warehouse Eli won’t be able to do much and I doubt he’d leave withoutalong He knew I could never use my full powers if he was in the room, it’d hurt him and I wouldn’t risk that"

"Fine Lia I need is for puppy love to spoilin the wall Lucian proddedme to the other end of the factory floor, where we stopped in front of an elevator Lucian pressed the barely intact button to call for the elevator With loud clanks and screeches, the old elevator responded

"You’re not serious?"

"Get in," he ordered

I stepped inside the elevator and it wobbled unsteadily I clasped the wall desperately to keep myself balanced Hunter clicked the button that had nuhtened gasp frorip the wall harder Please don’t let me die, please don’t let me die, I chanted silently

Lucian and Hunter watched me in ay, if it broke, it’s not like they’d die

With an abrupt yank, the elevator caet out of this lift Hunter pulled the door open and we stepped out onto a mostly empty floor A few chairs and desks littered the room but that was it The ere boarded up with thick sheets of plywood The only light came from the barrel to the left of the room Inside it was a small fire, that cast freaky shadows on the walls and floors The floor was concrete mostly, but a layer of cracked linoleus co in the room, believe it or not The black eyes that watched us approach were creepier I counted ten vahty in his chair behind them

One by one I saw the vampires inhale my scent They knehat I was I out the fire and tearing the boards froly, the moon lit up the warehouse better than the fire did

"You bought ift, Lucian? How kind of you" The leader’s voice was deep and husky

"Not this time, brother," Lucian replied dryly

"Then what is the purpose of your visit?"

"I have a proposition for you"

The leader laughed and it echoed around the rooe you a choice?"

The Gerald Harbor vampire leader shot out of his chair and over to Lucian Up close I could see hih His arms were thick, like a body builder

"You her power, but I’er"

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