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He opens a portal, bows, and waves her through ahead of him.
Here goes nothing.
Chapter6
Caleb
Aknock brings Caleb’s head up from the ancient parchments he’s been studying, trying to find another way to track a vampire who has magical skills, too. It’d taken some work to sort out which documents might have any information at all. The knock sounds again.
“Yes?” Caleb calls.
The door pops open, and Cora stops on the threshold. “May I come in?”
“Sure.” He drops the paper on the top of the stack in front of him. “What is it?”
“We had a reliable tip and we’ve found Vera.”
Caleb leaps to his feet. “Where is she?”
Cora gestures to someone else in the corridor and then steps into the small room where Caleb has taken refuge. She selects a spot near the far wall, and Caleb doesn’t miss the way she peers at him as though he’s a stranger now.
At one time, before Kenna took it upon herself to turn him human again, Cora could find Caleb and vice versa, thanks to the sire bond. Regret twinges his thoughts. He’d lost so much he’d grown accustomed to…most of all, he’d lost Maddy.
He misses her more than he knew he could, more than he thought possible. She’s a part of him, a vital, living, breathing part of him. He needs her.
Galina soon appears on the threshold as well. “We have a tip.”
He clutches his hands to keep his arms from flapping. “A location?”
Galina strides into the room like she owns the place, with all the assurance a witch can have. She shows him a scarf he’s never seen before. “It’s enough for me to find a location.” She conjures the location spell, and faster than he could have hoped, she grins. “I have her.”
“Send our people to get her.”
Cora steps forward, her expression more relaxed than it’s been since she delivered the news Maddy had gone. “Are you going with us?”
Caleb freezes. “Not yet. I’m not ready to lead anyone.” His feelings are all over the place, and his confidence isn’t back yet. “I’ll go when we have a location for Maddy… Until then…”
Cora nods as though she understands everything Caleb can’t say.
“Galina, go with them. They’ll need you.”
The witch beams at them all. “Vera can run, but she can’t hide.”
* * *
Caleb circlesthe room for the hundredth time when the door bursts open. Vera marches into the room, uncowed by Caleb’s retrieval party. Her chin practically points at the ceiling. Cora and Galina are on either side of her, and he’s glad Kenna isn’t here. Though, she could show up any moment…
“Vera,” Caleb says. He’d been practicing what to say the whole time, but it all flew out of his mind the minute the vampire strolled in. “You turned Maddy. Is that correct?”
Vera nods. “I did.”
“Where is she? You turned her, so you’ll know and can lead me to her. Tell me where she is.”
Vera quirks an eyebrow. “What makes you think I’ll tell you? You’re vulnerable now.”
Caleb scoffs at her. “Is that so? You seem to forget that I’ve been trained by the Order, and Maddy is my mate. It is my right to know, and I’m not as weak as you believe I am. I could kill you for what you did to her.”
“Perhaps.”
