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The pain of that is
still fresh, still hurts.
    Lucas brushes me off
with a wave of his hand and returns his attention to Ethan who’s still staring
out the window.
    “So, when are you going
to see them?” he asks, referring to the waiting vampires.
    With an audible sigh,
Ethan turns back to the room. “There’s no time like the present.”
    I guess we aren’t going
to get a day to ourselves after all.
     
    Finn
     
    After settling Allora
in a seat at the back of the van, I return to the front and start up the
engine.
    “Why are we taking her
with us?” Delilah asks, disgruntled. “We’ve got enough to worry about without
adopting every waif and stray we come across.”
    I glance at Allora in
my overhead mirror and see her visibly redden at Delilah’s statement.
    “You don’t have to take
me,” she volunteers meekly. “I can find my own way…”
    “You’re staying with
us,” I interrupt firmly before meeting Delilah’s gaze. “She’s some kind of
clairvoyant. Ridley kidnapped her two years ago so that he could use her
powers. Two fucking years she’s been kept prisoner by that psycho. We’re
helping her. It’s not up for discussion.” I tighten my jaw, giving Delilah one
final stern look before I start driving.
    “You always have to
play the hero,” she mutters passive aggressively under her breath but I pretend
I can’t hear her.
    I think about that as I
drive and wonder if it’s true. I signed up with the DOH because I wanted to save
people from vampires. I wanted to make up for the fact that I couldn’t save my
mum and sister from them. Then there was Tegan. The very first night I saw her
with Cristescu after he’d annihilated a whole squadron of my men I knew she was
stuck in a bad situation, and I wanted to help free her from it.
    I’ve been trying to
help her ever since that night to no avail. She stayed with a monster
willingly. Maybe she never needed saving to begin with. Or maybe she’s just a
lost cause, too in love with a blood sucker to see how she’s falling down a
hole. Eventually there’ll come a day when she’s in too deep to climb out of it.
    Up ahead I see a
shitload of traffic piling up on the road. I roll down my window and stick my
head out, only to be greeted by the sounds of horns blaring and people shouting
in desperation.
    “What the heck?” I say
pulling the van to a stop on the motorway.
    All three lanes on the
side of the road leading out of the city are crammed with vehicles, while the
lanes on the side going towards the city are empty. I guess it makes sense.
After all the madness and carnage that’s gone down, it seems only logical that
people would want to flee.
    Telling the others to
stay where they are, me and Gabriel get out and go to investigate the hold up.
Even if everyone’s trying to get away from Tribane, the traffic shouldn’t have
come to such a dead halt unless there’s been an accident.
    We weave through the
stationary vehicles and people standing around kicking up a fuss about the
delay. When we get about a half a mile up the motorway we see that there has
been an accident, only not the kind I expected. Several cars look like they’ve
been pulverised to pieces, and stretching from the ground far up into the sky
is a glittering purple shield, a barrier to the outside world.
    Gabriel lets out
several low expletives as we continue closer to the shield. It vibrates with
power – magical power. The sound of women and children crying fill the night
and among the shattered vehicles is a mess of blood and limbs. Most of the people,
though, are staring up at the barrier in fear and fascination.
    “This is Theodore’s
doing,” says Gabriel quietly. “He’s trapped us all in.” He pauses and points to
the carnage. “Those people tried to drive through it and look what happened.”
    “Shit,” I whisper, not
knowing what else to say.
    I’d thought Theodore fled
in terror when he saw Cristescu transform. Clearly he wasn’t too terrified