my stomach needs food. I forced myself to drink water. It’s not sitting well. I’m human again and there’s no pizza, Z. And that’s probably a good thing.”
“You have to go slow,” Dev said. “Hopefully when we get to this Vampire plane there will be more options. From what I’ve learned the vampires are much like ours in that they only get nourishment from blood, but there are many companions. They call them consorts. The consorts eat, so we should be able to find food there. We might have to steal it though.”
Finally something I was good at. “It’s going to be okay. We’ll get Summer and then try to find our way home.”
Where I would have to face Myrddin, and there would be no way he didn’t suspect I took his grimoire. He would come after me, and if I didn’t get the thrall stones out of my husbands’ heads, they might be convinced to come after me, too.
“Do you think she’s all right?” I asked, turning from the dark thoughts toward…well, they weren’t light thoughts. My daughter was under arrest.
“I think she’s alive and hasn’t been transported anywhere else yet. I spoke to Dean and he said he’s been monitoring the news on the Vampire plane.” Dev sank down onto the rocker to my left. He set a mug down on the table between two of the rockers. “He’s got a tablet that connects to their version of the Internet, despite the fact that there’s obviously no Wi-Fi here. This place we’re going is far more technologically advanced than we are. If we weren’t about to commit a crime there, I would say we should take a look around.”
“And smuggle back some tech your company can reverse engineer?” Daniel asked with a chuckle.
Dev shrugged. “I wouldn’t put it past me, but no, I was thinking we might be able to talk to a doctor about your condition.”
“It’s got to be magical.” Danny let his hands drop and went to sit beside Dev. “Is that for me?”
Dev nodded. “It’s an herbal tea. It shouldn’t upset your stomach. I grew the herbs and brewed it myself. I know this Erna and Dean seem helpful, but I’m not taking any chances.”
I’d been poisoned on a Faery plane before, so I got his reluctance to trust them fully. I sank down to the third rocker and leaned back, thinking about my daughter.
“Dean says this Taggart fellow will have to file paperwork to transport a prisoner off the plane. It’s a good thing because according to Dean the vampires here are big on paperwork, and it will take some time to push all of it through. Until then she should be held in a cell and safe,” Dev explained. “He hasn’t turned her over to the authorities, so Dean thinks he’s planning on collecting a bounty from one of the other planes, most likely the witch plane.”
Danny shook his head. “It’s a weird world, man. He was telling me there are planes of existence with dinosaurs. I’d kind of like to see that.”
I was sure he was planning a family vacay Jurassic Park style, but it wasn’t happening. “You’re not going anywhere, Danny. I know you’re going to be upset with me, but I think you should stay here. According to Dean we leave in two hours, but you’ll stay here with Kelsey.”
He sat forward. “I am not staying here. I’m going with you and that’s the end of it.”
Dev was frowning. “I think we should take Kelsey with us. Have you told her she’s babysitting?”
“I don’t need a fucking babysitter,” Daniel ground out. “You know I had a life before superpowers.”
“That was a long time ago,” I pointed out. “Decades. It’s been decades since you fought without vampire strength.”
“I wasn’t planning on fighting,” Daniel replied. “I was planning on getting in and out as quietly as possible. I was a thief once, too. Fighting meant we failed. You planning on failing? Maybe you’re the one who’s depended on vampiric strength for too long.”
Dev frowned my way. “Kelsey won’t stay here either. Or the boy. If you leave without them, they’ll follow.”
“If Daniel…”
“I won’t let him die,” Dev promised. “I won’t let anything happen to Summer either. Well, anything else since I’m the reason she got caught in the first place. I shouldn’t have allowed her to go after Marcus. I should have kept her safe.”
“You couldn’t have known,” Daniel said. “I’m honestly surprised someone managed to get through Marcus. I didn’t even