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"How can you trust him?"

Anna looked up at me and s his time away from Earth He hasn’t told me and I haven’t asked But it doesn’t ed in that vampire Neither myself nor my baby would be here now if it weren’t for him and that witch"

I still didn’t understand how she’d ended up in the realm of supernaturals with Kiev Novalic of all people, but it was clear that noasn’t the ti to answer my questions

"Ben, I-I need my family Kyle, Ariana and Jason I’ve been away fro…" Her voice broke as she reached a hand to her face, sing back a sob

"Of course," I said, forcing ht We’ll return now"

"You can allow Kiev to return with us," she said "I pro was screa behind all these strangers--I couldn’t ignore the conviction in Anna’s eyes

We returned to the chamber Mona and Kiev still stood in the saain Just the vah I felt insane for doing it, I held out my hand to Mona She shook it

"You can return with us," I said

I couldn’t bring lared at hi the enclosure, Abby leading the way I looked overus

We clied on the beach I pointed to the sube crowd of vampires and olves There seemed to be at least a hundred of them in total

"I hope they’re house-trained, Anna," Iolves in particular

"They are," she assured me "I’ve spent days with them and none of them has tried to harm me or the baby"

My chest still constricted, I walked over to Mona "So h for all of your troops How do you plan to get there?"

"Oh," the witch said, lifting a hand in the air "I can handle that Do you have any maps in your submarine?"

I nodded

"Then mark out where The Shade is and I can vanish us all there"

I looked at Abby nervously She shrugged

I ran to the sub it out on the sand, I showed Mona the location She pored over theup