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.”

eyes and resting my head

rest of the hour-long ride

deep into

little surprised when the car slows down and Sinclair sits up in his seat,

that we’ve arrived

anywhere.

comes to the end of what is basically a dirt trail honestly, the past five minutes have been a

looking around at the

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

I murmur, my eyes going wide

corrects, shooting

as we drive into the entrance and start to drive

my little mate,” Sinclair murmurs, turning to the window to hide his smirk, “who ripped someone’s throat

on Rafe, who stops screeching and looks around in wonder at the sudden change of color, “so imagine what I would have

like a large underground car park. There are a few more cars already down here, but the light layer of

the moment. I hadn’t realized that I was waiting for that but, perhaps a little

pulls us into the next free space and Sinclair and I quickly unbuckle our seatbelts and prepare to get out of the car. The other car pulls up

the move.

underground?”

it,” Sinclair replies, “for safety. Though there are some

forest, if we deem it safe to use

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

mate and our two guards through the entry

is

the walls, floor, and ceiling of all of

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