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I wondered if Kiev would have given in to this request had it come from my brother Somehow, I doubted it It was no secret that he’d had a crush on my mother--perhaps he still did--and I reminded him of her While all Ben did was remind Kiev ofout of the room Mona sat down on the sofa opposite me

"Rose Novak… Yes?"

"Yes"

"Well? What do you want?" she asked

"I would like to ask a favor of you," I began "I need you to fetch someone for me A vampire Caleb Achilles is his name He’s the leader of the same island you rescued my parents from I need to talk to him"

"He’s an enemy of this island Why would you want to meet him?"

"Mona, it’s… complicated I just ask this small favor of you I only need to talk to him for a few minutes"

She frowned at me "But if I stole him away from the island, where would you meet hihim here There’s a rock formation a few miles out to sea, outside the boundary of our spell You could find him and then drop him off there Then come for me" I described to her exactly where Caleb’s quarters were located in the castle to the best of my memory "I also ask that neither of you mention this tome "You want to be alone with hi her question

"You don’t need to be there," I said, with conviction I didn’t understand "I have two of the phones that Corrine has programmed to be able to communicate with The Shade" I reached into my pocket and handed her one

She stared at the phone as if it was soer over the screen "I’y yet This is the first time I’ve entered the human realm"

"Well, it’s really not difficult" I showed her how to select my number in case she needed to calla phone call from me It didn’t takeit

"So I’ll phone you when I need you to coht," she replied "But we’d better be finished before theI have with Corrine later I’m due to meet her in a couple of hours"

I nodded "We’ll definitely be done"

"Let’s do this now then," she own, she stood up and vanished

The thought of being perhaps ain released a swar at the clock My pal

Almost ten minutes later, Mona reappeared Her hair looked more disheveled than when she’d left, but otherwise she looked unscathed Furrowing her brows, she looked at "

"Okay," I croaked