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"We don’t know" His cool eyes settled on me

"Don’t talk toto do with this, where would they have all gone suddenly?"

"How do you know that your wife isn’t the one behind it? She’s been acting strangely lately, hasn’t she?"

Irritated by Aiden’s continued silence, I walked up to hi with you?"

My father-in-law’s face was ashen and he stared back at one for a walk in the woods during the night and lost their way But what you’re forgetting, Novak, is that none of this is reed to cooperate until we storht to Sofia It’s not ain Do you even re to help you storm the Keep?"

So much had happened since, and my mind was riddled with such confusion and panic, I could barely recall them now

"No? Well then, let me remind you Firstly, all the vampires we held in our custody were reed to become one of us and be transported to Aviary You may recall that I allowed them to remain vampires on their plea that they weren’t yet ready to becoenerous concession on my part, was it not? But now it’s tih"

"No No Not now You can’t take hioodbye to Sofia She doesn’t even know he made this deal with you"

I looked down at Aiden and shook hi this? Where has your spirit gone? Where’s the warrior I thought I knew?"

Finally he spoke, his voice cracking "Derek, if I believed that I had even an ounce of control over this situation, I would fight But we struck a deal with Arron"

And what about Rose? You would leave forever without even seeing her once? What about Ben? I would have said the words to Aiden, but I tried to avoid discussing my children in front of him whenever possible I crouched down so that ed, "Please, Aiden Your daughter and I still need you"

"The house on the beachfront you told me about, the one you and Sofia visited Do you re it for you It’s been transferred to both of your names And allto you" He reached into his pocket, pulling out a business card and a set of keys "Mr Campbell is the man you need to contact for further details I’ve placed hial affairs And here are the keys to the beach house" He put both items in my hands