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Rune’s phone started playing a Justin Bieber song.

“Fucking Evie,” he growled before answering the phone.

I couldn’t make out what she was saying, but Evie sounded panicked.

“Evie, calm down. I can’t understand… Okay. We are on our way now,” Rune said into the phone.

When he hung up, he looked at me, his face pale.

“What is it?”

“We need to go now. Something happened to Vivi.”

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Little Sisters Are Annoying AF, but You Would Still Do Anything for Them

The ride back to the compound was tense. Rune called his contact in PPD, telling him we were no longer at the scene and to handle it.

I was panicking.

Vivi might not have been all I had in the world, but she was one of the most important people in my life. She was annoying, bratty, and a pain in my ass, but she was my sister and my responsibility. I called her phone, praying that she would answer and tell me it was all a stupid prank. Each time, it went straight to voice mail.

Rune said a few times under his breath that it was probably nothing. The girls were probably playing a prank, trying to trap us into playing another game or rope us into doing something we wouldn’t want to do. I wasn’t sure if he was trying to convince me or himself. Either way, it wasn’t working.

I’d heard Evie’s cries over the phone when she called Rune. I heard the panic in her voice. She wasn’t playing.

Judging by Rune’s expression and his complete disregard for speed limits, traffic lights, and pedestrian safety, he knew she was serious.

When we skidded into the garage, Murmur’s car came in hot right behind us. Sarah jumped out and wrapped her arms around me before I even closed the car door behind me.

I hugged her back. Her entire body was trembling.

“What happened?” I asked Murmur as he and Tab got out of the car.

“Two demons came by the tattoo parlor. She was there alone,” Tab said.

“She locked herself in the back storeroom and hid. We got there right before they broke down the door,” Murmur added.

Sarah was usually so strong, never showing a hint of fear or weakness in front of anyone. The attack shook her, hard.

“Did you recognize them?” I asked Sarah.

She shook her head, her tears soaking through a spot in my shirt on my shoulder.

“Tori was attacked again too,” Rune said.

Something about this was off. We were missing a vital piece of information here. I felt it in my gut; I just didn’t know what.

“This doesn’t make sense,” I said.

There were two men sent to attack me and Sarah at the same time. Why? And why did they leave me and run when they saw Rune? I was literally slung over the guy’s shoulder. He could have at least tried to take me, but he didn’t. He dropped me and ran.

Two demons could have knocked down that back door in the tattoo parlor like tearing through tissue paper. But they didn’t. They didn’t take Sarah. Why?

Why go through all the trouble with no payoff?

“What doesn’t make sense?” Tab asked.

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