“Have you ever seen her before?” Declan asked.
“Never, but the way she was talking, it sounded like she meant the compound.”
“What makes you say that?” Logan inquired.
“She said to evacuate everyone. How many people would say that about their homes? It sounded like she was talking about a big building or a compound, but there’s no way she could know about the compound.”
“She was a vampire,” Logan said.
“She still wouldn’t know about the compound. I’d never seen her before, and we’ve met every recruit who steps into the compound. Most of them are there for months before they are allowed to leave, so I would remember her.”
“She could have meant a home,” Declan said. “And said it that way because she’s fucked in the head.”
“Maybe,” Asher muttered.
“But…?” Logan prodded.
“It was the way she said it, and she wassosincere. She meant every word she said. I could see it in her eyes.”
Silence descended over the vehicle before Nathan cleared his throat and gave a small chuckle. “There are a bunch of strange people at the airport.”
“That’s putting it politely,” Declan said. “Flying does weird things to people; it makes them a little crazier than normal.”
“I think it’s the food,” Nathan said.
“Can’t be the food; they’re too cheap to feed you now,” Logan said.
“That’s just it,” Asher interjected; his voice contained none of the amusement theirs did. “I don’t think she was crazy.”
“What do you think it was then?” Declan asked as he fought with the traffic grinding its way out of Logan Airport.
The way things were looking, it would take them longer to get out of the airport than it did to fly here.
“I don’t know,” Asher said. “But I think she truly believed it was dangerous for me to return home and for others to be there.”
“If she was only crazy, then why would she pick you out of a crowd of people?” Elena asked.
Asher shrugged and turned to the window again. “I don’t know.”
“Did she say her name?”
“I think she said Brie, but I can’t be sure.”
“Well, there can’t be too many Bries in the city,” Nathan said. “Maybe we can track her down.”
Asher laughed. “Yeah, sure, that will be easy in a city of millions, never mind all the surrounding towns and all the airplanes leaving out of there. Besides, I don’t think she wants to be found.”
“Why not?” Elena asked.
“She wasnothappy when I caught up to her.”
“So, she’s just hanging out at airports scaring people?”
“I have no idea what she’s doing, but she believed what she said,” Asher said.
Logan rested his hand on Elena’s thigh as he contemplated what was happening. Had he taken her from a compound he considered dangerous and placed her inside an even more high-risk one?
Then he mentally shook his head and inwardly chuckled. He wouldn’t let some stranger get under his skin. He told himself this, but a bad feeling was growing inside him.
