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have them are bickering and seem very
unstable. One of them keeps talking about hurting them!”
    Andrew pulls me closer before releasing me.
The room is filled with anxious, pale faces. All of the St. Clouds
are here along with several faces I do not recognize. Leading me to
the couch, Andrew’s voice is soft spoken, but I know he is fighting
for every ounce of control. “We caught a glimpse of a Mercedes
heading north. By their speed, whoever it is knew what they were
doing and stayed off of the main roads. They are heading toward the
rural and estate areas which are all privately held. Lucas is still
there and reviewing the tapes to ensure that we did not miss
anything and Eva and Jackson have headed toward the road where we
saw the car with some local friends to see if there are any clues
or scents which they can pick up on.” My heart sinks and the life
force is being drained from every cell of my being as he utters
each word. What if Lucas doesn’t see anything else and all trace
evidence is lost? The children could be anywhere, how are we ever
going to find them in time? What if they are dragged to... I force
my mind to halt the thought, if I finish it, I will shut down,
never feeling them again, never connecting with them again. I will
enter the deepest, darkest hell of my own creation, one where there
is no escape, no refuge, no light, and no possibility to save them,
ensuring that I lose them forever.
     
     

Chapter Three
- The Search Commences
     
    Andrew’s lips are moving. I fight through my
deadening senses to hear him. “Don’t give up hope, Lucas is still
looking and everyone here will assist in the search. Did you get
anything more from connecting to them while I was gone?”
    I can’t stop the tears streaming down my
cheeks. “They aren’t traveling by car any longer. They were being
carried to some confinement place. Kayla and Nicholas are still
unconscious. Jacob was coming out of the stupor but they knocked
him unconscious again. I can’t tell how badly he is hurt because I
went to concentrate on Nicole hoping to get some information about
what was happening to him, to them, but she started shutting down
and my connection was broken. What if he is really hurt! I left him
in his darkness.” The sobs rip from my chest.
    Andrew wraps his arms tightly around me. “He
is very strong. I’m sure that he’s fine. Please this is important,
what else did you hear?” Although Andrew is trying to be strong for
me, I can feel the anxiety radiating in his embrace at the thought
of Jacob being hurt.
    Straining to speak, “I could hear the same
woman and man fighting. There has to be two other people with them,
but they never spoke. The man was threatening to stake Jacob
because he was moving around and the woman knocked him down. They
were going to confine the children and then go get David. Andrew,
they seem to be all members of the same family and wherever they
took them, the room they were traveling through is exceptionally
cold, I could feel it through either Nicholas or Kayla and the air
around them is dank and musty.”
    “What makes you think that they are part of
the same family?” He inquires staring at me intensely.
    “When they were arguing, the woman was
griping over not disposing of Catherine and Lucas sufficiently and
that their taking the children could have gone unnoticed longer if
they had help, but the man said that they could only trust family.
I don’t understand. If Jonathan returned, could he have engaged a
family of demons and vampires to grab them? How many families have
all been turned?”
    His eyes dart to the anxious faces of his
family and then back to me. “I don’t know how many families have
been changed. Usually conversions happen in solitary incidents.
Families are seen more with witches. Are you sure that the people
who have the children are vampires and not witches or something
else?”
    I am about to answer, when a rapid knock at
the door draws my attention.