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Yuri, Xavier, Vivienne and Claudia all pushed their cell door at once--but it didn’t budge

As the hours passed, hopes of ever finding Anna evaporated Derek pulled h I knew he could offer lad that he’d reached for th from

The vampires in the opposite cells sat back down after their failed atte to do with us?" Claudia asked for the u Yuri’s knee

We all looked blankly at one another

Yuri wrapped his arm around Claudia and drew her closer to hiht of our twins and prayed that Corrine would keep her word to look after theain, whatever happened I looked around at the people in the room, most of them our closest friends and family: Vivienne and Xavier; Ashley and Landis; Yuri and Claudia; Gavin and Zinnia… The weight fell upon Derek’s and my shoulders to keep them all safe We’d led them into this situation And yet Derek and I were incapable of protecting even ourselves

"How is it that we never knew about this place? These va in all of our minds ever since we first discovered these two va the truth

I reached for Derek’s neck and pulled his ear closer toan assault on The Shade," I whispered I’d been avoiding saying this to Derek until now because I hadn’t wanted to panic the others, but after hours of being trapped I couldn’t hold in h I spoke the words barely louder than a breath, I knew most of them would be able to pick th of this witch, I was sure that she would be able to penetrate Corrine’s protective spell Now that Caleb knew the location of our island, there would be nothing stopping her

Caleb Just thinking of that boyechoed off the walls I strained my neck to see who had entered

Speak of the devil…

Derek let out a lol as Caleb eed from the doorway

Caleb walked toward us and scanned our cell As his eyes rip Caleb Although Derek had aied to catch hold only of the front of Caleb’s shirt, which tore as the boy stepped back

Derek stood, his chest heaving, holding a shred of Caleb’s shirt in his hands "What do you ith us?" Derek de our cells