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

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

deep into the

down and Sinclair

that we’ve arrived

anywhere.

to the end of what is basically a dirt trail honestly, the past five minutes have been a very uncomfortable ride and Rafe let us all know that he

ask, looking around at the trees on every

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

my god,” I murmur, my eyes going wide as

cool,” Sinclair corrects, shooting

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

hide his smirk, “who ripped

Rafe, who stops screeching and looks around in wonder at the sudden change of color, “so imagine what I would have done if he was trying

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

that but, perhaps a little bit of me was

driver 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 next to us

the move.

all underground?” I ask, looking

there are some living quarters

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 that

that the entire structure is very military As

that the walls, floor, and ceiling

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