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here.”
    Arguing with him about this was not an option.  He was right.  No one needed to see what he was going to do.
    “Will Max be coming with us?”
    “No.  I’m sorry.  He has to stay with me, but don’t worry.  He will be safe.”
    Swallowing my fear for Max, I turned and walked back to our group and explained to them that we needed to go and gather our things.  If the option to leave this place was going to be offered to us, I wanted to be ready to go at a moment’s notice.
    Max was at my side, whispering for me not to worry about him.  “I know what I’m doing, love.”
    That was what I was worried about.  How many times had he been with my father when something like this happened?  I was sure that it was more times than I wanted to know about.
    “Would you like for me to pack your things for you while I am down there?”
    “Yeah.  That would be great.  Thanks.”
     
    I looked at my father and saw the victory starting to show on his face.  He was doing exactly what he wanted to do to Aden, torturing him in little ways, taking his power over his progeny.
    “Watch me.”
    My father began to say words that I could not understand at first, but as he went on, I noticed that I could pick out a word here and there.
    Grande un, ter presente uinculo que Ad

CHAPTER 3
     
    As soon as we were back in the passageway to the house, Alice started asking questions about what was going to happen.  The only thing that I could tell her was that we might be leaving this place and that everyone needed to be ready if that came up.
    I didn’t think that she wanted to know the rest of the story.
    “Try not to forget anything” I told them.
    This was the only way that I could think of to distract them from the goings on above us.  Their opinions had been formed about Alzar before they could even realize that it was wrong and I didn’t want anything else to weigh in on that.  They needed to know that he was not what Aden had told them that he was.
    Honestly, I had more questions than answers myself and I wasn’t in a position to be handing out false hope to any of them.  From here on out, life is going to get harder for all of us.  The tranquil life that we had here was not going to be like what was coming.  I am almost certain of that now.
    Separating from them, I went and gathered all of my belongings first.  I took everything that I could, right down to the hairbrush.  I had no idea what was going to happen next and who’s to say that Alzar and Max wasn’t going to come down here and kill the rest of us as soon as he was finished with Aden?
    Shaking the thought from my head, I tried to regain my focus on what I was doing.  When I was sure that I had everything that I needed, I moved on to the room that Max had been staying in.
    Everything was already in place, packed up and in his bag.  He had put the bag on the bed.  There was no denying anything now.  Max had known that we were leaving even before all of this had taken place.
    When I touched the handle of his bag, a vision as clear as it would have been of I had seen it with my own eyes played in my head.  Max was standing at my father’s side.  Something about him made him look like a tank in that moment.  But even with his strength, I could feel his sadness as well. 
    My father took a small knife from the sheath that he was wearing on his side and held it out in front of him.  I didn’t know any other way to kill a vampire except for silver.  I guess that it is safe for me to guess that the blade is silver.
    I watched as he plunged the knife blade into Aden chest. Aden fell to the ground and started shaking violently.  His body twisted and convulsed.  There had been no question in my mind that the pain that he was feeling was pure agony.
    My father went to his knees on the ground beside Aden’s now still body.  Red tears started falling from his eyes as he chanted another spell.  This time I recognized the words clearly, although