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“What the hell?” the wolf now inside the room shouted. “The girl’s gone! We’ve got an intruder!”
Once Cole reached the hall, he whipped to the right toward the rear service entrance. Lauren glanced back and saw that the others had come running. If Cole hadn’t gotten them out of the hall, they would have been trapped.
Cole slammed the bar of the emergency exit door hard so that the door flew wide. We’re going straight up.
As soon as he cleared the doorway, Lauren shifted her levitation to match his and up they went. The sound of bullets hitting the air followed. The club’s security team might not have had a target, but they were shoot-and-ask-questions-later types.
We’ll angle to levitate above the roof, then once more we’ll go straight up. Cole’s command came through loud and clear.
Again, she shifted course right with Cole so that if any shots were fired into the air, they’d have the roof as protection.
As predicted, more shots followed.
When he reached the center of the roof, he began a hard, straight-up climb and went fast. She stayed with him all the way.
She thought he would head back to his SUV, but he stayed on an easterly course directly toward Elegance Territory.
I thought we’d take your SUV, she said.
We can’t risk it. They know she’s gone and by the time we reached the main bridge that connects Savage to Elegance, Julio’s men would have sent their bribed officers to do a car search.
I hadn’t thought of that, but you’re right. Lauren breathed a sigh of relief. She’d done well to ask Cole for help. His experience on the force had made the escape possible.
I’m going to keep up the speed as well. Can you call the Landing and let them know we’re heading in?
Of course. She struggled as she drew the phone from her pocket. Her fingers were trembling. Way too much adrenaline.
She called Maeve on her private phone who in turn said she’d meet them at the Landing driveway. She was just coming in herself with a Graveyard rescue.
When Lauren hung up, she told Cole what was going on. They’d reached the area nearest to Maeve’s spelled boundary but because the security spell was so strong, all she saw was an odd cluster of houses.
Cole said, I have to pull up. I see waves of some kind and I’m experiencing an impulse to turn away.
That’s it. We’ve reached Hard Landing and look, there’s Maeve’s Jeep. She’s driving fast. Drop down and be ready. I’m calling her again to let her know we’re here. I don’t know if she’ll be able to see my aura or not.
Cole responded and made his descent. Lauren got her on the phone. Maeve continued driving fast toward the entrance. “Just be waiting for me and follow me in.”
“Will do.” Once again, she put her phone away then told Cole what Maeve had said.
Cole descended close to the Jeep and a moment later the security spell parted. He rushed right in following the Jeep then touching down just off to the side of the double glass doors.
Maeve’s medical team was waiting for her. As she issued her orders and her people went to work, Lauren took Cole and Vickie out of the invisibility spell.
When a near-dead female vampire was settled on a stretcher, Maeve turned toward them while directing one of the bigger wolves on her team to join her.
Maeve had curly red hair and the lightest blue eyes Lauren had ever seen. She was a beautiful woman with a spirit to match.
As Maeve approached them, her gaze fell to Vickie’s dark curls. “Thank God.” She lifted her gaze to Lauren. “Is this the one you’ve been counseling at the transition home?”
“She is,” Lauren said.
She stroked the girl’s soft hair, a very loving gesture. Maeve was one of Lauren’s role models. “You must be relieved,” Maeve said. “Did you put her under?”
“It was the only way to get her into my invisibility shield. It would have caused her too much pain, otherwise, and she would have alerted her guards.”
Maeve shifted her gaze from Cole to Lauren then back again. “You’ve done well, both of you. Now let’s get Vickie inside. We’ll keep her in the hospital bay overnight. And don’t worry, we’ll take good care of her.”
Lauren smiled. “I know you will.” Working as a therapist on Maeve’s staff, she knew all the ways Vickie would be cared for. She’d found a safe refuge in the Landing.
