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I like Sam, but him going to these extremes to find me is a little unnerving. Besides, how does he know where I am?

“I have been waiting here to see if you came in.”

“Why?” I ask.

Anyone looking over will assume I am talking to myself. I step back, bumping into the chair behind me. Sam’s arm touches my leg, and I know he is sitting behind me.

“They have your phone?”

“No, they blocked you. The burner phone I handed over to them, they found out about it.”

“No matter, I will find a way to keep in touch.”

“How?”

“Don’t worry about it. I will speak to you soon,” he says when my name is called.

I step forward, grabbing the tray of coffees. I turn and expect to see Sam, but he is gone, the chair and table where I am standing now empty. I look in both directions down the street but can’t see him or his car. Going to the traffic lights, I press the button and wait before walking back to Eli and Cyrus’s office building.

Walking down the hall to their office, the secretary, a dark-haired man with glasses perched on the end of his nose, looks up.

“Ah, ma’am, you might want to wait,” he says, but I ignore him, opening the door and walking inside, much to the horror of their secretary. Walking in, Eli is doing up the buttons on his pants, and my lips tug up, knowing what they are doing.

“Your secretary tried to warn me away,” I tell them.

“Peter has excellent hearing,” Eli says, and I feel my face heat up.

“What?” I ask, shocked.

“He is a werewolf, Addie. Nothing is secret in this room,” Eli says, and I feel my face heat up, knowing he probably overheard me toying with Eli and sucking Cyrus off.

“Not so cocky now, knowing the entire building probably heard what you were doing to Cyrus?”

“Is everyone supernatural here?”

Eli nods, and Cyrus smiles deviously.

“You knew and didn’t think to warn me?” I accuse him, and he chuckles.

“I was enjoying myself. Besides, they won’t care,” Cyrus tells me, plucking his drink off the tray.

I hand Eli his and have a feeling I will never be able to keep a straight face in front of anyone here now.

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Sam

I watch from the rooftop of the café, my binoculars in hand. I can’t see through the heavily tinted glass windows of the building across from us. I need to find a way to bug the place, but too many supernaturals work there. I just need to see her, find out where they live, and I can plot my next move. I have always loved Adeline, watched her grow into the marvelous woman she is. It makes my stomach churn, knowing she is in there with those monsters, doing unspeakable vile things with them. Her father would be rolling in his grave if he knew what had become of his daughter. Some pet for their amusement. I have always watched over Addie since she was a teenager. Adeline is unaware of the extremes I have gone to for her.

I followed her father and sister home one night after our monthly hunter organization meeting. Her sister was always so loud at the hunter meetings, so eager to please her father. Why Michael had chosen her over Addie was beyond me. One thing I never understood about her father. Why did he choose the outrageously loud and annoying daughter to share our secrets when he had a perfectly good child, one who was capable, sitting at home?

My father always said Michael chose Taylor because he was trying to give her some responsibility and calm her down. She had been a problem child from the time I met her at that first meeting. I was sixteen at the time, and she was a rude, stuck-up brat. I planned on doing something to her, wanting to scare her off becoming a hunter. Only when I followed them home on my pushbike, I discovered Adeline. I peeked through her window by accident and mistook her for Taylor. My father never told me Michael had another daughter. Adeline was quiet and well put together for a thirteen-year-old at the time. I peeked through her window, and she had her nose in a book while doing her homework.

After that night, I would secretly sneak over to watch her. I thought it was a crush, only the feeling toward her grew stronger. So eventually, I deliberately forced myself to befriend her friends in hopes of being around her. It didn’t work; she always stayed home, and after Michael died, she was always too busy, their lives thrown into chaos while they attempted to salvage what was left. She worked herself into the ground.

Taylor tried to rejoin the hunter organization, but she stood no chance without her father. She needed her father to guide her and show her the way we did things. When she realized her dream of being a hunter was ruined, she spiraled, leaving Adeline and her mother to pick up the pieces and leaving me no chance to be with her. Well, that was what I thought until a chance meeting through a mutual friend, and she was just as perfect meeting her in person as she was when I would watch her.

Now, looking at the sleek building of Colten Enterprises, I am angered at the thought that they have my Adeline. They have been in there most of the day. I just need to see her again, just a glimpse or even see them leave so I can follow them.