“So, what do we do with him?” Zina asked, drawing Brie back to the problem at hand.
Brie tapped her chin as she pondered this. She knew what she’d like to do: go back in time andavoidhim at the airport, but time travel wasn’t something she’d mastered yet.
“He doesn’t know where we are,” she said. “We can put him back in the van and take him to a gas station. Once there, we can kick him out and let him find his way home.”
“With all the technology nowadays, his people might find a way to locate the van through video footage from businesses and the highways. They could trace it to our next location or back here,” Cabo said.
Brie cursed as she resisted stomping her foot. She’d spent far more of her life without technology than with it, and she often preferred thewithouttimes. She’d forgotten almost everything could be monitored now.
“We can leave him on the roadside somewhere,” Zina said. “It’s broad daylight, so there won’t be any Savages. We’ll give him some cash, untie him, and say goodbye. If they don’t know where to start looking for us, they won’t be able to track us.”
“He knows what the van looks like,” Cabo said. “And he’ll know where he’s dropped off. They could do a video search in that area, locate us, and follow us from there.”
“Is that possible?” Brie asked angrily.
“Yes,” Cabo said. “If they have a lot of technology, and I’m assuming they do. It also seems they have some money backing them too.”
“Most old vampires do,” Brie muttered.
And she’d seen enough of the Alliance in her visions to know there was a ton of money in that compound and a whole lot of power. They weren’t a group to be messed with; they hadn’t survived years by being stupid or weak.
She glanced around the small house; it revealed no hint of the fortune she’d accumulated over the years too. They were all much safer in a small, understated place than somewhere luxurious that might draw attention to them.
The humans didn’t know what they were, but other vampires would, and she knew exactly what the Savages and demons were doing to the vampires they caught. She’d rather live in a hut with no plumbing than be turned into a Savage.
Asher made sure to keep his breathing steady as he listened to the vampires’ debate what to do with him. Part of him hoped they’d toss him out somewhere. Cabo was right; Declan and Roland might be able to track them once he contacted his friends. They might finally figure out what this group was doing if that happened.
The other part of him didn’t want to take the chance they might lose them and never get the answers he’d been seeking for weeks. It would drive him crazy if he didn’t learn what was going on.
And, if he was honest with himself, he was reluctant to lose Brie again. The woman infuriated and intrigued him; he was determined to learn more about her.
He also suspected she had gotten herself mixed up in something dangerous. Though she’d tied him up on a couch, where he’d gotten a shitty night’s sleep, he wanted to help keep her safe.
However, considering he was the one tied up, he wasn’t too good at protecting her—a fact that rankled.
But maybe he could help… if they’d let him know what was going on. And if whatever she was doing really could help destroy the demons, he would do whatever he could to help.
“So, dropping him in the middle of nowhere probably isn’t the best idea either,” Cabo said.
“Neither is leaving him here,” Brie said. “We have no way to make sure he remains secured. Do you think they could pick up the van from the parking lot we took him from and follow it here?”
“There aren’t enough cameras on the road here for that, and the van isn’t registered to any of us or this address. I can’t say the same about where we’re going. It’s a lot more populated. I also have some extra license plates in the garage; we’ll change them before leaving. That will keep us further off the radar.”
Whatever these three were up to, they were prepared and good at covering their tracks, Asher decided as his nose started itching. He resisted rubbing his face on the pillow as he cursed the itch.
“So we’re taking him with us then,” Zina said.
“What if he gets in the way?” Cabo asked.
“Shit,” Brie muttered as she ran a hand through her hair, tugging at it.
She’d messed up worse than she’d realized by taking him from that parking lot. What were they going to do with him? And it wasn’t just for this stone; there were two more they had to find.
“I won’t get in the way,” Asher said, turning his head to scratch his nose.
CHAPTERTEN
“I knew you weren’t sleeping,”Brie said.
