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Corrine sain and squeezed my hand "She’s back With her baby She’s with Kyle in the Catacombs"

Her baby… I dreaded to think how traumatic that h it

Derek and I were stunned silent that Kiev had indeed helped Anna But the truth was, no ot, we still found it i for excuses e shouldn’t trust hiain to the Kiev I’d spent ti led with himself sometimes while I was his captive in The Blood Keep But unlike Derek, he’d always given into his darker tendencies He’d seemed to take pleasure in his darkness And that was the main difference between that red-eyed

But now that he stood before eon as well as returned our dearest Anna to us… I just didn’t knohat to make of the situation any more

I wondered whether ed

I was dying to hear his whole story I hoped that it would ratitude rather than with suspicion I wanted to know everything that had happened to him since he left Aviary, how on earth he’d couessed that this would be a story far too long to hear now

Until now Kiev and Mona had displayed no sign of being anything but allies I decided to put thoughts of Kiev aside for theto find Anna and rabbed Derek’s hand and pulled hi back over his shoulder at Kiev and his siblings Looking around the clearing, I spotted my father a few feet away I led Derek toward ot up and ran into the woods We didn’t slow until we reached the entrance to the Catacombs I could barely containall the humans who cheered as we entered It wasn’t until we reached the fifth storage cha for

"Ben! Rose!" I exclaih the roo their faces Derek and I took turns hugging each of the in the s Rose’s hand tightly ina hand on the redhead’s shoulder "Your mother has returned Go home and see her"

Relief washed over his face "Thanks, Sofia," he said and rushed out of the chao back to your ho off the stone walls "The storm has passed… for now"

We walked fro the rest of the hu the Cataco to spot her a toward the crowds nearing the entrance I spotted her in ti with Kyle

I rushed ahead with Derek, the twins following closely behind "Anna!" I shouted

She turned around, bea her sleeping newborn Kyle’s warmth had returned to his face as had Ariana’s and Jason’s I bent down to kiss her baby boy’s soft head

"He’s beautiful," I whispered Anna looked terribly thin for a h her baby appeared to be a healthy weight "What happened?" I asked, unsure whether she’d want to start talking about her ordeal now, but unable to keep in the question any longer

She averted her eyes to the ground, then closed the for my hand "I really don’t want to talk about it just yet It’s such a long story I pro later, but I just need to be with my family I need to recover, and I don’t want to think about that right now"

"Of course," I said, squeezing her hand I looked at her baby again whom Kyle had now taken in his ar a sideways glance at Kyle, who rolled his eyes even as a s her eyes to the grass

"What?" Derek blurted out, his voice rising to soprano

I was speechless

"Why would you damn your baby with a na he would listen to reason even if his ouldn’t

Anna chuckled and looked up at us, grinning "You can bet it wasn’t easy for lance Then her face beca Her voice dropped to alh, this baby and I… You don’t kno close the two of us caht I was now dying evenher throat and trying to steady her voice, "that I owe Kiev--and his girlfriend--more than any of my family can repay"

My throat had dried out