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Cassia pushed a glass of wine and a plate of
bread and cheese towards him as he pulled up a stool;
    “Here, you might feel better with something in your
stomach. You were so violently sick I thought you were about to heave up your
guts.”
    Flavia winced and Javier flashed Cassia a quizzical
look;
    “Did you stick your fingers down my throat or did I
dream that? I recall having a strange dream…”
    “You seemed to be struggling to wake up. You murmured
something that sounded like the letter B. I, well…I thought it would be better
not to leave you to them so, yes, I lifted you up and stuck my fingers down
your throat to make you sick. It seemed the best course of action.”
    “Quick thinking, it was. I was dreaming about my
daughter Beatriz, my Bee I call her. She was telling me I was in danger and I
had to wake up. In my dream she was calling me repeatedly…” Javier tailed off,
retreating into himself as he took a swallow of wine.
    So, he had a daughter. Funny, she didn’t think he was
joined. She hadn’t detected the scent of another on him. Suddenly Cassia had a
flash of intuition;
    “Who was Charlotte? You said “was” back there…”
    Javier avoided her eyes and sipped more wine. Cassia
pushed the plate of food closer to him and he looked down absently and picked
up some bread before looking up. His face was completely shut down.
    “Charlotte was my bonded life consort for nine
decades. Beatriz is our daughter, our only child. Charlotte was killed eight
years ago. There wasn’t a body. I wonder how they knew that. They knew they
could hook me…none of the others, just me. What a damned patsy.”
    He spoke very quietly and Flavia pulled her stool
closer and took his hand. Cassia stood silent and appalled. To lose a bonded
consort was agony, almost like death itself. Her mother had taken years to
recover when her father had died; her heart and mind tormented and her body
suffering as she was forced to go to a Donor for her blood needs.
    “I’m sorry to have brought all that back to you. If I
had known…”
    Javier cut in; “You would still have done it to save
your sister.”
    Cassia met his level stare steadily;
    “Yes, I would. But that does not stop me from being
sorry.”
    Javier shook his head;
    “It was a long time ago.” He paused at the sound of
the doorbell, “Ah, right on time.”
    As he walked over to the control panel and checked the
image on the screen before buzzing their visitor into the elevator Cassia saw
the gun stuck into his jeans at the back. He palmed it as the elevator door
swished open then she saw him relax and put it back as a tall blonde Vampire
dressed in black stepped into the room. Their visitor snapped to attention like
a soldier and briefly touched his right fist to his heart;
    “Sir. They sent me straight from the Island, thought
that would speed things up.”
    Javier nodded;
    “Stand easy. That was a good call Andreas. I’d like
you to take the collars back with you and start tracing their origin. It should
be easy, it’s highly restricted technology.” He looked over at Cassia and
Flavia;
    “Ladies, come and sit over here. Andreas will unlock
those restraints.”
    As Flavia’s collar was unlocked with a sharp click
Cassia examined the Vampire Andreas for clues; she had no doubts now. These
were warriors, soldiers. As she turned her head to the side while her own
collar was unlocked she suddenly knew with complete certainty where these men
had come from. She was in a world of trouble.
    She listened as Javier thanked Andreas and instructed
him to return at sunset. The minute the elevator doors shut Javier slid open a
section of the control panel, punched in a series of numbers rapidly then shut
the panel and turned to face them.
    “I’ve just engaged the electronic net. No-one can
shift in or out of this apartment. Please do not try, at the very least you
will be seriously injured.”
    “They aren’t coming after us are they Javier?” Flavia
asked