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"We’re holding your son and daughter captive We’ve given your twins a rough tiest that you don’t make this more difficult than it needs to be"

"What are you?" Sofia said, her voice weak

"That’s not important What’s important is that you pay attention"

We waited with bated breath for him to continue

"We know that you hold an ie for the return of your children, you will hand over the immune to us"

All eyes shot toward Anna Blood drained fronant sto by the second

"Why do you want an i?" The man chuckled "You know the value of immunes And since most of them are locked away in the depths of Cruor now, they are aler have the i labor But our witches took sae stores We could hand thehed

"Only the fresh, hot blood of an immune is of use to us So if your i to offer us in exchange for the twins You’d better think long and hard if that i at each other After a few s over and not make any rash decisions, eh? Call me back once you have an answer You have "

The phone buzzed as the line cut off

"They’re not getting Anna," almost everyone in the roo up

I held my hands up for silence I needed to think fast Sofia’s panicked eyes settled onmy head in my hand

There was no ould ever hand over Anna That et our twins home unscathed

I sat for several more minutes in silence as every pair of eyes in the hall bored intofor my solution

Finally I looked up "Hand me the phone"

I dialed our twins’ nus

"Yes?"

"We do have the ie for the twins"

"Hest you write down the location"

I noted down the details

"Make sure that i any witches If you breach this agreement, I’ll snap the spines of both of your children withup

Everyone in the rooone mad

"What did you just say?" Sofia exclai Anna with us," I said loudly, quietening everyone’s protests "She will remain here"