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“You know it,” she said.
Ronan gave Alanah a swift kiss. “I’ll be careful,” he said, as if reading her mind. “You be careful, too.”
“I will.”
She watched him and Sylas as they jogged away, rounding the side of the building and headed inside to look for danger.
“Do you really think it was the king?” Serena asked, coming next to Alanah.
“Who else could it be? Unless the hotel’s got some wicked new competition that’s trying to kill customers.”
“True.”
She sighed, stared at the hotel, then turned her attention to the forest. Was it possible? Had the fairies come for her? And if so, why would they target the building and not her specifically?
She didn’t think she’d be getting any answers soon, which was very unsettling.
Chapter Nine
Ronan carried the clothing that his mate had picked out at the mall while they walked through the crowded space with Serena and Galen. They’d planned to be there earlier, but the explosions had put a damper on their activities.
It had taken hours to go through the hotel with the sabers and wolves who made up the security team. Caleb, the master vampire, had been kept in the loop from his underground residence.
The police had declared it appeared to be a random attack, and to ramp-up security and call with any concerns.
He wasn’t surprised. An attack of that magnitude out of the blue was beyond their abilities to handle. The disappointing issue was that someone had hacked the security system and froze the video recordings an hour before the attack, so they didn’t have any clue who’d left the vehicles.
“I don’t like it,” Galen said. “I’m sorry, but I don’t.”
“We need to know if our parents are okay,” Serena said.
“They said they’d kill you if you ever showed your face there again,” he pointed out. “And I’m also going to point out that you’re pregnant and my cat is going nuts with the thought of you possibly being in danger.”
“I’ll be safe, I promise. All of us will be, I promise. I love that you’re worried about my safety, but we need to do this. I need to do this. With you and the others keeping us safe, I have no doubt we’ll make it back home safely. All of us.”
“I agree with Galen,” Ronan said. “I think this is an insane idea, and also ridiculously dangerous.”
“Hey, they might have set car bombs at the entrance to the hotel,” Alanah said. “We should find out if it was the fairies and put a stop to it. Plus, help our parents.”
“How would they even know where you were? We weren’t followed when we got you out,” Ronan said.
She gave him a wry look. “They can track me, and I’m sure they did. You set me free from the king’s punishment, and there’s no way he’d just let that go without doing something about it.”
He grumbled out an agreement. He didn’t like the idea of his sweetheart going back into the lion’s den so to speak, but he had a feeling she and her sister would traipse right into the center of the commune with or without them.
They reached the SUV they’d borrowed from the hotel’s selection of employee vehicles. Ronan put the bags in the back, then climbed into the second row with Alanah, while Galen and Serena got in front.
“Listen,” Ronan said. “I’ll only agree to this on a few conditions.”
“Such as?” Alanah asked.
“We have a team with us, whoever Galen suggests, and you two cloak yourselves so you’re safe and unseen. We can locate your parents, extract them, and get the hell out before anyone’s the wiser.”
“What about finding out what happened, if the king is behind the bombing?” Alanah asked.
“We’re not risking anyone’s safety to chase a non-existent lead,” Galen said. “You think it’s the fairies but there’s no evidence. Unless we hear otherwise, we’re going to do our part to keep security up and watch for anything like this to happen again, and hope it was a one-time-thing.”
Alanah made a disgruntled sound.
