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him again when she said, “They should be here.”
    After a cursory glance around, she added, “There’s no reason for them not to be here.” With her hands on her hips, she said, “It’s not like this is a hospital, for crying out loud.”
    With her help, they searched the room.
    “Aha!” he said when he opened a bottom cupboard and found his clothes neatly stacked in the back. “Here they are.”
    Sian stepped out while he got dressed. Which he did quickly. He opened the door to let her back in, but there was no sign of her. He waited for her to return. He would go out there on his own, but he wasn’t up to a session with the doctors telling him he needed to stay here. Screw that. He was leaving.
    He’d called out mentally to Serus a couple of times, but there’d been no answer. He didn’t like that. It took a lot for their mindspeak to not work. And it usually meant one of them was unconscious. Now the last time had been his fault as he’d been the one out cold, but he was awake now and given that, where the hell was Serus?
    A rap on the door sounded. He opened the door. Sian.
    “Good.” He nodded at her. “Now where is everyone?”
    Sian wrinkled up her face.
    “No idea. Dr. Hansen isn’t around that I can see. He’s only here to help out, so maybe he left to get some rest.”
    “Help out?”
    Sian searched his gaze. “Remember all the vamps that you were supposed to be bringing to the Council?”
    “Oh right. Forgot about those little shits. Are they okay?”
    Sian shook her head. “No. One of the three you brought from the mall was killed in the accident. The other two men appear to be enhanced and are slowly dying. We’re trying to get what little information from them that we can.” She peered around the hallway then gave him the all-clear signal. “The young vamps are in bad shape, but they will pull through. One of them is Councilman Baker’s son, and he says they’ve all been forced to use enhancements or be killed.”
    “No way. Not his own son?”
    “Yes.” Sian shrugged. “They were told to think of it as an improvement.”
    “Seems like lab rat type of experiments to me.”
    Sian turned a corner. “Absolutely. I think the kids agree. Apparently it was more of a numbers game. Something to do with being short on manpower and needing more men. They weren’t given a choice.”
    “Ha. So we knock out their clones and they just turn to their own families to build up their numbers. That’s just sick.” And disgusting. Goran made a mental note about Councilman Baker. He’d be sure to find the asshole and pay him back for getting his own son involved. “It’s not a shining hour for vampires,” he said quietly.
    “No,” Sian answered. “It’s definitely not. Then again, the humans aren’t proving worthy either.”
    Goran shot her a look. Delicately, he asked, “How is Taz?”
    “He’s fine.” She beamed. “I meant all the humans selling their own kin for the blood farm. The Human Council is in a hell of a mess. Between poisoning each other, selling off each other, and generally just being greedy, the human race needs to be culled.”
    Such violence from one so gentle was unusual. Goran wasn’t sure what was going on, but with Sian being the liaison between the two Councils, she must have observed a gutful of nasty behaviors. He decided silence was the best avenue. Then she did it.
    “The Human Council,” she said, “wants Tessa to go through the human population and sort them out the way she did at the meeting.”
    “What?”
    “Yeah,” Sian said, shooting him a dark look. “It worked so well there apparently, they want her to tell them who is good and who is bad. So they can destroy the ones involved.”
    “Ah hell. They can’t use her like that. Especially if she understands what they plan to do with the bad guys. It’s one thing to kill during war; it’s tougher to be the decision-maker as to who should live and who should die.”
    “I know,” Sian