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“Yes. But not very many.” Avi said.
“We can get in and get the children out with that trick. And we’ll take weapons, just in case.”
“I’ll go get Valor. She has a go-bag filled with what we need,” Avi said, disappearing at vampire speed.
“Ransom would stop us, right?” I asked, wishing above anything we could bring him.
“He’d definitely make us wait for the hunters and assassins,” Cassandra answered.
I shook my head, spinning around and hunting down a pen to write down the address of the foster home on the list of names. “He’ll be back any minute,” I said just as Avi returned with Valor and Lyric. “We’ll leave this here for him to find.” Cassandra arched a brow at me, but I shrug. “I’m in a hurry, not suicidal. He’ll rally everyone when they return and we’ll get the help we need, if we need it.”
All of them nodded, but Cassandra eyed me as we headed out the doors. “You know Ajax will never forgive you if this goes south ,right?”
“I’ll never forgive myself if I stand by and do nothing while children could be dying. Children who have already suffered enough trauma as it is.” Losing parents or any situation that led to them being cared for by Maria. That was enough to deal with for one lifetime, let alone being targeted by a malicious cult with a dangerous agenda.
“I’ll drive,” Cassandra said, and we all piled into her car, Valor handing out weapons as we went. I’d never held a gun before, but I’d seen Ajax do it enough times that I figured out the safety pretty quick. My adrenaline was so high I didn’t even contemplate the fact that I was holding a gun, the weight heavy in my hands.
Cassandra hit the gas and we reached the foster home in a matter of minutes. Each second that ticked by had my heart thumping hard against my chest, my mind conjuring horrible scenarios about what we might walk into.
We climbed out of the car and instantly heard the screams.
I didn’t waste a second waiting for an order or a plan. I ran.
Bounded into the house, the girls behind me, and I swallowed back a cry.
The Sons are here, and I could hear them, feel their thoughts pounding at my mental shields. They’d already made it upstairs to where the bedrooms were.
“Save as many as we can,” I downright demanded before sprinting up the stairs and diving straight into a nightmare.
19
AJAX
Defeat had a certain taste to it. Bitter, of course, but also musty, like a house that hadn’t had a breath of fresh air from an opened door or window in weeks.
It tasted just like this.
“Fuck!” Dagon shouted, losing his temper and clearing the desk of the abandoned office, sending everything to the floor in a crash.
Saint stood by quietly, seething as he practically stared holes into the wooden floor. He was unreachable to us in his anger, lost to quiet rage that touched us all but consumed him.
“There’s nothing we can do?” Zachariah asked softly.
I shook my head. “Much to Jocelyn and Luna’s dismay, it’s been too long for the witches to work a tracing spell to see who has been here, and it’s not like stopping time is going to help us here. If Saint can’t scent him, no one can.” It had obviously been months since this house had been used, which meant Aurora had been held captive longer than any of us had realized.
The witches had the same problem with the house we’d found Aurora in. They could only trace back twenty-four hours.
And the trail wasn’t just cold. It was icy.
“The problem with hunting Samuel is that he’s huntedwithus for so long that he knows exactly how to avoid detection,” Zachariah said, rubbing the bridge of his nose as Hawke’s phone rang.
“Yeah, well that’s a problem we’re going to have to figure out sooner rather than later.” I glanced meaningfully at Saint.
Zachariah nodded.
“What the fuck do you meanthey’re gone?” Hawke snapped, squeezing his cell so hard I heard the plastic parts creak. His tone made my stomach twist into knots, and every head turned his direction—even Saint’s. “You havewhoin the—” Hawke shook his head. “Forget that part. We’ll deal with that later. Where the fuck is mymate?” His jaw flexed. “Yes, I think meeting us there would be the fucking prudent thing to do!” He stabbed the end button on his phone and slammed it into his pocket, then recited an address to the rest of us that had me blinking. “Apparently that’s where the females have gone. And I mean all of them except Olivia. Warrick Zorin brought them another list like the ones we’ve been finding on the Sons and the females allleftthe estate while Ransom was escorting Warrick to the dungeons.”
There was a mutter of swear words from every male in the room.
