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attempted to hold it together as my heart thumped. Feeling him that way, I so desperately needed to see him. I knew I needed to follow this group of warriors into this battle to do whatever they said, as my best chance of ever seeing him again. My own desperate brain could not be trusted. He was too important.
     
    “I’m going to fall back, stay with Christina,” Nira announced, getting her nods of agreement from the other two vampires before she looked me up and down, gave me another squeeze, and turned me in the direction of those hellish stairs again.
     

Chapter Six
     
    Just as I’d taken a few steps onto the fourth floor, moving forward just enough to allow the wolf posse behind me enough room, we found ourselves blinded by a flood of lights. I saw stars, blinking as if I’d just looked up at the sun. Only, I couldn’t look away. The light surrounded us, wiping out our vision completely, seemingly coming from all directions at once. Night went to day in an instant, and it took a few moments to adjust, until the dots floating before my eyes began to clear.
     
    In the meantime, no one moved except to serve to smother me with their protection. I didn’t mind at all. Pushed against a wall, I knew a wall of beasts stood between me and those who wished to take me. I just kept waiting for something to hit us, to explode around us, for some startling end of my life to come. Yes, they wanted me alive, but in the fight, I could be easily lost in the crossfire. Only, nothing happened outside of my worst case scenario thoughts. My eyes adjusted slowly, letting me see Nira’s face that looked even paler in the glaring light. Now she looked her part, like the ghostly skinned vampires on TV. She held me tight, sending pain shooting down through my arm from the grip she had there. I knew she didn’t mean it. Still, the fear making her do it was worse than any physical ache she caused me.
     
    I tried once again to look out in front of us, but the light was too much, too insanely bright at its sources, which seemed to be in many corners of the room. Blinking furiously, glancing just a little toward the light, I managed to make out the flood lights, like the kind a construction crew working late at night to clear a bad accident would use, sitting at each of the four corners of the room. One was even aimed at our back, insuring that as we turned around, we would still be blinded.
     
    I looked to my side, toward the wolf, my eyes aching from trying to at least place the source of the sudden light. I looked at the shiny glow of Alex’s fur, hearing the low growl that emanated from deep in his chest as he too looked around, waited. His stance was predatory, waiting to pounce. Then, forms moved between the farthest two lights, making us all look at once.
     
    I, too, braced myself, widening my stance, straightening my arms, and clenching my hands into fists as the others did. I tried to count, looking as well as I could at the line of wolves that formed between the lights. I’d no idea where they’d come from. I guess they had been lining the far walls. We couldn’t see them in the dark or with this light until they stepped into the room to make themselves known. Counting, I got to eleven. The pack had been twelve, I thought, and they’d already taken out one. I did, however, take notice of the absence of the man in the black suit, unless he was one of the wolves there. I didn’t know if he was counted in the pack number or not. Still, I figured he’d assigned himself to guarding Lex. 
     
    I could still feel him as if he were breathing his last breaths. I knew him to be above us still. I couldn’t feel Vivian and Riker, though, even now. If they were even there, I wasn’t sure that I would or could. I had no wolf protector or intimate connection with either of them. Plus, here, I doubted I could replicate that spell used to open up my psychic whatevers and use my magic to track someone. Of course, that could have only