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.”

say, closing my eyes and resting my

one says another word for the rest of the hour-long ride away from the city

into the

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

that we’ve arrived because really, it doesn’t look like

anywhere.

end of what is basically a dirt trail honestly, the past five minutes

I ask, looking around

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

my eyes going wide as I stare into

corrects, shooting me

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

the window to hide his smirk, “who

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

like a large underground car park. There are a few more cars already down here,

perhaps a

our seatbelts and prepare to get out of the car. The other car pulls up next to us and I see Sinclair’s men likewise

the move.

all underground?” I

safety. Though there are some living quarters

if we deem it safe

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

and our two guards through the entry that leads to the bunker

structure is very military As we walk

into some rooms we pass and note that the walls, floor, and ceiling of all of them

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