Page 74 of The Vampire's Storm

CHAPTER TWENTY

Logan stood with his arms crossed at the back of the room as Sage and Brooklyn presented their thoughts to the king.

Mack was with him.

Security around the royal family was heightened right now, and he was tagging along after seeing Mack and Ari guarding the two scientists.

Fine, yes, he was following Brooklyn.

Ari and Vincent leaned over the documents Sage was speaking about, and he now wished he’d stayed behind.

The king looked up.

“Count me out. I’ve had that crap injected inside me way too many times.” Logan held up his hands.

“We don’t have the serum,” Brooklyn said, then glanced at Sage. “But we need some.”

Ari shot him a look.

“You want us to go into enemy territory and procure some?”

Like it was just a damn supermarket.

“Taking it from your blood is restricting our ability to formulate and test this antidote,” Sage said. “If we had a sample, and we don’t need much, it would substantially increase our speed and efficiency.”

The king rubbed his jaw.

“So destroying all the production facilities may be jumping the gun. Do we need to source it there first?”

“Possibly. Let’s see what happens when we get our team into Manhattan where we are sure the Russians are located right now,” Ari said.

“We could try to grab a sample before detonation, but with that much of it in one place, it could be too dangerous,” Logan said. “We’d need as much information on the location as possible.”

“Do we know if Xander was producing it at BioZen?” Ari asked.

That fucking place.

Beside him, Mack shuffled uncomfortably. Just the name sent chills down any informed vampire’s spine. Not to mention a hybrid.

“I never saw it. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t. There’s a chance,” Sage replied, glancing at Brooklyn in question.

The hell is she looking at her for?

They all knew it was impossible for vampires to penetrate the BioZen lab because of the tungsten steel used.

Brooklyn couldn’t even lift a damn weight.

Logan frowned and kept watching the two women, something trying to force its way into his consciousness.

Something he’d missed.

“The breakthrough we had today indicates the antidote could work, but we need to test it,” Sage continued. “I can’t stress how early these results are, so please don’t get excited. I just think we need to test it in a real-life situation.”

“So put ourselves in the firing line?” Mack asked.

Ari glanced over at him. “No. We procure a sample and then test in a controlled situation.”

“I’m busy both those days,” Logan mumbled.

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