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Trent’s eyes touched on mine and he reached for led where they rested against his aura I started to pull back, and he grippedrid of my headache"

Damn it, I was coated in the atup on trying to hide them anymore

"I was so scared when they hauled you up onto that stage," Trent said suddenly, and I held my breath as he carefully pulled one, my power stolen I couldn’t reach you and no one listened toto kill you"

I could hear his heartbeat as I rested"So did I," I whispered, unable to say it louder lest I start to cry I’d been terrified for hiain"

His hand gently stroked"Probably"

Trent ht As usual This is hard But I’ to do it anyway"

He kissed the top of my head, and I tilted le spread between us, war throbbed

His eyes were glistening when our lips parted I wished that this was over and it was to the girls to the zoo "You should stay here with the girls," I said, and his hold onat ain, but my besotted smile faded at the sudden rap of a thick knuckle at the door

"Ivy and Nina," I whispered, fear causing a spike of adrenaline in me

"Quen?" Trent said, his brow furrowed as he carefully helped entle, but I was still gri there--staring at us with themy pity, his face hardened

"I wanted to let you know that Quen has found word of the ambulance driver and paramedic who picked yourfriends up They’re both in intensive care with internal injuries"

"No" I fell back into the couch after trying to stand "What happened?"

"They’ll bothvampires," Al said dryly "But as for Ivy and Nina" He shrugged "There is no sign of them"

"Cormel" My heart pounded as I turned to Trent "He wanted to talk to you He took them!"

Trent rose, pace fast as he went for the phone on the desk Al cleared his throat to stop him dead in his tracks "It wasn’t Cormel who injured the paramedic and the driver," Al said "It was Nina"

Tension pulled ured it out Nina had died on the way The sun had set and she’d never lost consciousness She had freaked out, and Ivy had tried to contain her Shit, where would Ivy have taken her to try to bring her under control? Somewhere safe where Corrabbed the aro"

"But the deed hisit to me with a sad, detero I’ll be back as soon as I can" The crutch fit under my ar,I’d leave He knew better thanest the helicopter," the demon said, voice oily "The entrance youin Besides, the roads are io with you No one listens to ," Trent said, but I was already halfway to the hallway

"Thank you," I said breathlessly as I passed Al

"Don’t thank ertips in speculation "I just don’t want to be there while Newt explains to the collective that we have to ith the elven Goddess to try to reopen the lines"

"That bad, eh?" I muttered, jaw clenched as we found the hallway

Al leaned close, voice dangerous as he whispered, "We don’t forget, Rachel, and it’s not as if it was our ancestors ere betrayed It was us"

Chapter 29

The glow froainst the to not nailed down out and away I’d never get through ler, and I made a mental note to check my bathroom before we left--because even if Ivy was here, there was no e could stay

"Careful," Trent said, arm around my waist as he helped raveyard fro as he looked over the destruction I couldn’t bring an to shut down and the wind quit pushing

"What an unholy mess," Al said fro on sanctified ground The elven curse ell and truly broken then

One good thing, I thought, looking up

Breath catching, I stopped, pain stabbing , he stood beside me as tears threatened to blur my vision I will not cry, I said to ht and ently pushing led to the stone walk and the undaed wooden fence "Bis?" I called as we circled around the front, but there was nothing, no cheerful sparkling of pixy dust, no wind-chioyle--just the faint hush of traffic a street over It felt dead here, abandoned

"I’ll find hile of ot hiht and checking his sword belt

"Yeah" Expression serious, he peered up at the steeple "It feels pretty good here, even if it looks like the back roo, and Al pushed past us "Daate and toward the front door

Mystics I suppose they athered here more than anywhere else, eitherfor me