Cora picks up the third call and I narrow my eyes at her even though she can’t see me. I can tell she was screening my calls and only picked up because I’d never, ever triple-call her unless something had happened.

“Ella?” I hear her worried voice say, “what’s wrong?”

“Where are you, Cora,” I demand, letting my tone tell her not to fight me.

“What -”

“Where. Are. You.”

“I’m I’m at the clinic -” she says. “What’s happening?”

“We’re sending a car for you at the clinic, now,” I say, glancing at Sinclair, who nods to me to let me know he’s on it. “Get in it immediately, Cora. Don’t speak to anyone else. Don’t ask any questions.”

“Ella,” she hesitates, her voice wavering. “I can’t-

“This is not a request, Cora,” I growl. “They came for him. They tried to take Rafe. We are sending, a car for you, and you are getting in it.”

I hear a sharp intake of breath from her side of the line, and then a moment of hesitation, and then she agrees. “All right,” she says, and I can almost see her nodding anxiously. “Okay. I’ll do it.”

I exhale a deep breath of relief and nod. “Okay. I love you, Cora,” I say, my voice wavering a little.

“I love you too,” she replies, with I don’t know what regret? In her voice?

But before I can ask more, she hangs up.

“The car is five minutes from her,” Sinclair murmurs, squeezing my hand again. “We’ll get her. It

will be fine.”

closing my eyes and resting my head back

word for the rest of the hour-long ride away from the

into the

a little surprised when the car slows down and Sinclair

lets me know that we’ve arrived because really, it doesn’t

anywhere.

trail honestly, the past five

around at

he says, and nods to the driver, who presses a button on the ceiling of the car, one of the buttons usually reserved for a garage door opener. And then my mouth drops open as, in front of us, the earth just…opens, sliding upwards like the jaws of some great creature and revealing beneath it a metal tunnel filled with

eyes going wide as I stare into it.

Sinclair corrects, shooting me a little

the entrance and start to drive down a steep incline into the earth. “But if you’re claustrophobic it

window to hide his smirk, “who ripped someone’s throat out

shaking my head and putting a hand on Rafe, who stops screeching and looks around in wonder at the sudden change of color, “so

way down the tunnel before the passage opens out into a wide space, like a large underground car

a little bit of me was

to get out of the car. The other

the move.

underground?” I ask, looking

of it,” Sinclair replies, “for safety. Though there are some living quarters that peek

deem it

understanding, and I lift Rafe’s carrier with me as I back out of the cat and

my mate and our two guards through the

that the entire structure is very military As we walk through the hallway

some rooms we pass and note that the

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