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 against the leather of

rest of the hour-long ride away

into the

car slows down and Sinclair

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

anywhere.

the past

it…where?” I ask, looking around at the trees on every

door opener. And then my mouth drops open as, in front of us, the earth just…opens, sliding upwards like the jaws of

murmur, my eyes going wide as I stare into it. “That is so

Sinclair corrects, shooting me a

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

to the window to hide his smirk, “who ripped

screeching and looks around in wonder at the sudden change of color, “so imagine what I would have done if

a wide space, like a large underground car park. There

just for the moment. I hadn’t realized that I was waiting for that but, perhaps a little bit of me was expecting another blindside

the next free space and Sinclair and I quickly unbuckle our seatbelts and prepare to get out of the

the move.

underground?”

safety. Though there are some

if we deem it safe to

as I back out of the cat and shut

I follow my mate and our two guards through the entry that leads to the

when I see that the entire structure is

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

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