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I looked at Mae and Hilda, wondering what they were going to say. But they nodded. It seemed she definitely had to go to the hospital.

“I’ll go with her,” I said.

“Good idea,” Sheriff Ted said, poking his head in the room. “We’ll want to ask her some questions when she wakes up.

“Well, maybe we should give her some time to rest first,” I said with a smile.

Mae pulled me aside as they loaded Kartika into the ambulance.

“You can’t stay with her,” Mae said.

My heart tightened, but I knew she was right. I felt connected to Kartika because we had such similar experiences with rejection. I thought, we would automatically be friends. It didn’t matter we hadn’t known each other over those twenty years of adulthood we had already experienced.

“We have to let her go,” Mae said.

“I know,” I moaned. “We’re all in danger enough and well, she’s not really strong.”

“I think your Wraiths will show up eventually,” Mae said. “For now, we really need to make sure she’s protected and out of here.”

“If the wraiths already know she’s connected to us and they’re willing to do this, won’t they do the same if she’s not here?”

“I don’t think so,” Mae said. “I think they’re right on top of her because she’s right next to the cemetery and they’re trying to keep her from us. Let’s let them think they’ve won and we sent her packing. The rest of us need to go back to The Estate.”

“We’re not even going to say goodbye?” I asked.

“It’s not goodbye,” Mae said. “Let’s make it is low-key as possible for her own good.”

Chapter 36

When we arrived back at the estate, the red room was all aglow with tons of lights.

“What’s going on?” I asked.

“We don’t know.” Anita and Drake said. They’d gone back early and had been sitting in the room monitoring the crystals, which apparently had flung up a screen and was showing them images right, left, and center as if it were a tv screen whose remote was stuck and flipping channels.

“Are you sure it’s even safe to watch?” I asked, looking at the scenes of dark and fiery creatures milling around.

“I don’t know what you mean,” Anita said. “It turned on all by itself.”

“Maybe it’s already connected to Jane in some way, so it has abilities.” Drake suggested.

“It kind of worries me a little bit,” I said.

“You mean, you think maybe they can see us?” Anita asked.

“It’s always a possibility,” I said.

It was one of my firm beliefs that things had to be looked at from different perspectives to find a solution.

It was one of the reasons why I’d taken to being a vampire so easily. The only way to solve the crime was to think like a killer. I might not have been a vampire my whole life, but I’d felt like a hunter my whole life. Now I had to think like a vampire and my gut feeling was that vampires didn’t trust anyone.

Not even their own.

But I was different. I was a vampire and a blood coven member.

“Shut it off,” Branson said.

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