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Aiden had already been in training when his sister, Vicky, was captured by vampires looking to sell off her blood to the highest bidder. She’d been chained and held with other purebreds. It had taken them a while, but Ronan and the others had hunted down and destroyed most of that remaining threat against purebreds.
What remained of those vampires were a far smaller threat than what the vampire race faced with Joseph. But then, Joseph and the Savages were a danger to everyone who crossed their paths. For the first time, he was glad Kadence would be far from here.
“Bring Aiden and his family here too, if they agree to it,” Ronan replied.
Lucien took another swig of his bottle.
“There are other turned vamps who have already gone through the training and are out there hunting Savages,” Saxon said. “Do we bring them in?”
Having as much help as they could get would be the smart thing to do, but having vampires crawling over this place and the nearby cities and towns in search of food would be a sure-fire way to draw Joseph’s attention, along with that of the humans.
However, if Joseph was accruing Savages, it was only a matter of time before he caught the attention of someone he shouldn’t.
“Let’s get the recruits here first, and then we’ll discuss bringing more turned vamps in,” Ronan replied as the last of the glass in his hand worked its way out of his flesh and clattered onto the bar.
“When should I bring them?” Lucien inquired.
“Now. I want this over with,” Ronan replied.
CHAPTER 30
“I’d like to make a phone call, if I can,” Kadence said.
“Of course, miss… ah, Kadence,” Baldric replied with a smile. “You’re not a prisoner. We’re only here to make sure you’re safe.”
She smiled at him as he held one of the cell phones out to her and she took it. “Thank you.”
“If you’re going to call your brother, I’d keep it short. That may be a throwaway phone, but we don’t want to take the chance they could find you.”
“I will. It’s… ah… it’s okay if I call him?”
“Ronan said you could do whatever you wanted once you were free, as long as it didn’t put you at risk, and I am to use my judgment on that. Since you can’t do anything to hurt yourself, or Ronan, I see no reason why you can’t call him. I don’t believe you would do anything to put Marta or I at risk either.”
“Of course not,” she whispered.
“Don’t forget our flight leaves in ten minutes.”
Kadence resisted tugging on the collar of her shirt at the reminder. “I know.”
She tried to tune out the crowd of people around her as she walked away from Baldric. It was quieter in this area of the airport than it had been when they were going through security, but she was ready to leave Logan Airport far behind her. Though she knew all the airports would have the hectic hustle and bustle of travelers trying to reach their destinations, she found the activity she’d assumed she’d love difficult to handle when a growing weight was bearing down on her chest.
She started dialing as Marta walked by with a stack of magazines and books in hand. The crawling in her skin had increased since she’d left Ronan, but she didn’t know if that was from being away from him or from her unfamiliar surroundings. Not to mention, there were so many people; they wereeverywhere.
Her head pounded from all the noise. The scents of cooking food, coffee, body odor, and one woman who had enough perfume on to drown an elephant filled her nose. Kadence couldn’t stop her nose from wrinkling as she passed the woman. She returned the dirty look the woman shot her and got as far from the woman as she could, but the heavy floral scent followed her.
She hadn’t expected to be this overwhelmed by the human world, but her senses were being bombarded, and her body ached. Someone bumped against her, and she nearly jumped out of her skin before she hastily sidestepped them.
Taking a deep breath, she tried to steady the riotous beat of her heart as she punched in Nathan’s number and held her breath in the hopes her brother still had the same phone. She knew he would have done everything he could to keep it, knowing it was her only connection to him, but sometimes things went horribly wrong.
“Kadence?”
“Yes, it’s me,” she whispered and wiped away the tear that slid down her cheek at the much-loved voice coming through the line.
“Oh, thank God,” Nathan breathed. “I’ve been so worried about you.”
Guilt filled her at the relief in his voice. “I’m sorry, I really am. I hope you know that.”
“It doesn’t matter. Just tell me where you are and I’ll come get you. We can forget all about this when you get home.”
