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too well about the fear, the loneliness, that feeling of being lost.
    “Are you guys some type of special military branch?” she finally spoke up.
    Sydney held back a laugh.
    “Not exactly,” he hedged. What to tell her? They didn’t even have a name for their little super squad. All he had was, “Hey, we go out and try to prevent disasters when Niella Dreams of them. And don’t forget we even save cats from really high trees!”
    The truth was that they were a small group. Very small. They had no idea if there was a military branch out there and personally he really didn’t want to be some mad scientist’s wet dream.
    It was those types of thoughts that made secrecy so important to people like them.
    “I know it’s not a lot to go on,” he began and then stopped. He cocked his head.
    Cali’s whole body tensed. “What?”
    It came again. The slamming of car doors.
    Sydney dashed to the front door and locked it. Cali jumped over Collette to pull back the curtains in the living room.
    Her face froze. “Jared.”
    Felix couldn’t help the white-hot jealousy that crashed through his body.
    “Garnet.” Cali spoke a second later.
    Sydney hustled to pull Cali away from the window before she was spotted. “Who?”
    “My brother and sister,” said Cali.
    The tension riding Felix’s body eased.
    “Right,” said Sydney. “Time to move.” She handed Cali off like a football, and Felix ushered her back toward the kitchen.
    He heard Cali mumbling under her breath. “What are they doing here?”
    A key jingled in the door.
    Sydney drew up beside him. “Tell me again how this is going to work?”
    He was supposed to have a plan? Didn’t running in and saving the damn day count? “Uh, we run out the back and circle around to our cars?”
    They’d reached the kitchen. The floor was clear of any bodies, though Cali kept searching the floor as if it held the missing answers.
    As soon as they made it into the backyard they heard a male voice call out from the front door. “Cali?”
    Felix cursed under his breath.
    “Well, you can’t blame them for searching for her,” said Sydney. “They did, after all, park behind her car in the driveway.” Something flashed across her face as soon as the words left her mouth, but Felix had no time to try and figure it out.
    He wanted to run his hand through his hair but was too busy steering Cali. “Not now, Syd.”
    She strayed to one of the windows on the side of the house and peeked in. “They’ve found Collette.” That didn’t give them very much time before the police would be called. “Where’d you park?” Sydney asked him.
    Hadn’t she seen where he’d parked? “One house up,” he told her. Then, with a sinking sensation, and a sudden understanding of her earlier expression, he asked, “Where’d you park?”
    Sydney winced. “Don’t go getting mad at me. You’re the one that took off without telling anyone. I was just trying to help.”
    “Where did you park?” he repeated.
    “In the driveway?”
    “Dammit, Syd.” This was not what he needed. Sure enough, as soon as they cleared the gate that led into the front yard, they saw Sydney’s white Toyota Yaris trapped between a beat-up Nissan parked in front of it and a new Ford Ranger behind it.
    New plan.
    “We can’t get to your car, Syd, so we’ll pile into the Hummer. I hope you didn’t leave anything valuable inside.”
    “I didn’t know her brother and sister were going to come by,” she defended.
    Cali seemed to wake up from her shocked stupor. “Neither did I,” she shot back.
    Sydney ignored the comment. “Felix, the car’s registered in my name. It has all my information inside the glove compartment. I have to move it.”
    “No time,” he told her. He hated to do this to Sydney, but the less they were connected to whatever it was Collette was involved with, the better. He wasn’t so much worried about the police finding them, but rather whoever Collette was working with finding