the blustering storm outside. “Should you fly in this?” There was zero visibility.
“Sure.” He pulled her in for a hard kiss and then let go. “Don’t disengage any of the security measures until Benny is at the gate and you see his face on video. Understand?”
She nodded, trembling.
“Let’s go,” Adare said, striding out the front door and not looking back. Ronan followed.
Faith, dressed in yoga pants and one of Ronan’s over-large T-shirts, turned toward the coffee maker. “I’ll put on a pot. Tell me again what Bobbi said to you.”
Grace repeated the story again for her sister. “I mean, my photographs have been selling well, and I guess her sister knew that, somehow. I saw the darkness in her, Faith. I saw it.” Or rather, all around her.
“This isn’t your fault.” Faith took two mugs out of the cupboard. She waited as the coffee flowed out and then poured two mugs, bringing one over to the table and motioning for Grace to sit. “Ronan and Adare will do what needs to be done.”
Grace wrapped her hands around her mug, letting the brew warm her. “This all seems odd, right?”
Faith blew on her coffee and then took a sip. “Definitely.”
Grace stiffened. “Do you think it’s a trap? That the Kurjans got to Bobbi? Or that the Kurjans have threatened Rose because of me? That I led them right to Bobbi and Brian? This is my fault.” She started to stand and jerked in surprise when her sister yanked her back down. “What are you doing?”
“We have no idea if it’s a trap or not. What we do know is that our mates are over a thousand years old, have fought countless enemies, and are still standing.” Faith took another sip. “Either way, that baby is who matters right now, and they’ll do whatever they have to in order to save her.”
Grace released her mug. “How can you be so calm?”
Faith set her cup down. “Oh, I don’t know. My sister was in a coma for two years and I could do nothing to help her. Then I met a vampire-demon hybrid from another world who was around fourteen hundred years old, and then I had crazy sex with him and got all mated and immortal. I guess after a while, you learn to trust that things will work out.”
The sarcasm was new but kind of funny.
“Fair enough, but I’m still worried. If it isn’t a trap, then Rose is in danger. If it is a trap, then Bobbi and Rose are in danger, because they’re being used.” Her body ached.
“I know.” Faith finished her coffee and stood to pour herself another cup. “I need to take a shower before Benny gets here, just in case we end up fleeing once again. Are you okay for a few minutes?”
Grace took a drink of her coffee, letting the caffeine jolt her system. “Go ahead. I’m fine. Take your time.” She’d forgotten how Faith liked to drink coffee in the shower. Grace had tried it once and had just ended up with watery coffee. She waited until her sister had left before grabbing the manila file full of pictures and looking again at the one with Kim and Rose. Shadows all but swallowed them both up.
Why hadn’t she said anything?
Forget the fact that she didn’t have details. A simple warning would have alerted Bobbi. God, Adare had to find that baby, and she had to be all right.
Grace flipped through to the image of the happy family sitting on the sofa, and then one of Bobbi and Brian outside in the bright sunlight with the snow sparkling all around. More shadows seemed to reach out to them from the trees. Was the entire family in danger?
Something wasn’t right.
She went through all the photographs, her instincts flaring wide awake. There was no doubt in her mind that her old friends were in danger. Horrible, horrible danger. She stood and paced some more. Beneath one of his smiles, Brian looked contorted, as if he was being tortured. Was it an omen?
Thunder crashed far in the distance, and she could swear she felt the house move. The storm must be getting worse. Hopefully the weather had cleared up toward Denver for the guys. She glanced at her watch. They’d been gone nearly two hours. Had they found anything?
The sensor from the gate dinged and she whirled around, running to the control panel. “Yes. Benny?” She flipped the switch to turn on the video. Only garbled noise came