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Once I’d landed on this lower building, I ran around the edges once again

While the building next to it wasn’t any lower, there were ledges that looked ain onto this second roof and, taking it slowly,balconies

Now that I was on the ground, I lost no ti turn a few ti before I found myself back on the promenade before the beach

I ran across the sand and entered the water, holding Tobias up and kicking withus toward the submarine I’d anchored about half a ed him up to the submarine roof, opened the hatch and slid in with hi heavily, I placed him down on a bed in one of the cabins and locked the door behindsweat from my broalked into the control cabin and picked up the phone Jera to need to go up to the roof to get a signal, but there was clearly sonal already even in the thick walls of this sub sweat froated to his contact nu to the rings

The first

The second

The third

He picked up after the fourth

"Yes?" I sed hard

"I think I’m ready to take you up on your offer" There was a pause at the other end of the line

"You were successful in creating a half-blood?" "He’s in transformation now

I’ll know in a few hours" "Call back then" Jera up and the line went dead

I placed the phone down on the dashboard, staring at it as I chewed on my lower lip

Tobias Cole

I just had to hope that he would wake up as a half-blood and not a vampire

I didn’t need a mad vampire for company

I already had myself to contend with

Chapter 7: Caleb

My brain was in a fog

I found it hard to fixinto ashes by the lake

It replayed over and over in htmare I couldn’t escape from

I didn’t kno much time had passed since I’d last rested my eyes

But even as Annora settled down to sleep, I should have known better than to drift off

I sat bolt upright the moment I tasted it