Roger

“My phone,” Dominic murmurs as I look over his wounds. “Fuck your phone,” I murmur, shaking my head and leaning closer to a deep slice on his stomach that makes me hiss with anxiety.

“Roger,” Dominic snaps, and I look up at him with a frown. “The priest – he said the master had Rafe. Check my fucking phone – Ella will…” his head. 1 falls back, exhausted. But I interpret his meaning. So, I reach for his back pocket. Dominic moans loudly as I turn him a little so that I can get behind him, but eventually I get the phone and flick through it, my face going pale at what I see.

“Shit,” I murmur, flipping through the messages first from our father’s phone and then an unfamiliar number.

“What?” he asks.

“They don’t have Rafe,” I sigh, tucking the phone into my own back pocket. ” The priest was wrong about that. The baby’s still with Ella and Cora. But…” I sigh, and Dominic opens his eyes to look at me, bidding me silently to tell him everything I know. “They attacked the bunker when we left. The girls got out through the passage – they had to leave dad behind. And…Cora’s hurt,” I say, working hard to get the words out steadily. “They went to Hank, to try to patch them up.”

Dominic’s eyes go wide now. “Ella’s gift?”

“Bound,” I say, shaking my head. “I don’t know how-”

“Doesn’t matter,” my brother murmurs, and then to my shock – he curls his body to sit up, almost screaming at the pain it causes him.

“Dominic!” I shout, putting my hands on his shoulders, but he works to swat me away, so I back off.

“We have to get to them,” Dominic says, panting and holding my eyes. We can’t – we can’t trust Hank…”

head. “Let me go, Dominic,” I say, shaking my head. “You’re in,” I hesitate, but when I look at the blood

glares at me and I sigh, knowing it’s a lost

say, giving a little shrug and working to put my arm beneath my brother’s shoulder to help him up. “But

mutters something in response as we get him panting to his feet, but I ignore it, seeing Conor coming

“No one else here. If the man – Xander if

We need transport, now. You take all the men – injured

giving us a quick

commands to the men. “That one needs a promotion,” I murmur

stairs. “Right now, let’s just figure out how the hell we’re getting me out of this

Ella

eyes dart to Hank, going immediately wide. And suddenly, Henry’s ideas echo in my mind. That we can’t trust Hank. That he’s gotten too close to our family too quickly. That he’s an ambitious, eager man who has worked suspiciously hard to work to a place of trust with

asking so much about my gift and how I could use it? Did

Priestess, Rafe still crying loudly in one of her arms while she holds one of the empty jugs of holy water with her

then, shocked and confused.

on the Priestess

– a noise beyond the normal cries of a disgruntled baby who wants his

As if –

himself intuits

is

who holds him, as I see now the vicious sneer on her face as she

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