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.”

resting my head back against the leather of my

rest of the hour-long ride away

deep into

surprised when the car slows down and Sinclair sits

way that lets me know that we’ve arrived because really,

anywhere.

the past five minutes have been a

I ask, looking around at

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

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

corrects, shooting

mean, it’s impressive,” I continue as we drive into the entrance and start to drive down a steep incline into the earth. “But if

to hide his smirk, “who

hand on 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

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

quite safe, if 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 on the

unbuckle our seatbelts and prepare to get out of the car. The other car pulls up next to us

the move.

underground?” I

replies, “for safety. Though there are some living quarters

forest, if we deem

with me as

and our two guards through the entry that leads

structure is very military As we walk through the

note that the walls, floor,

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