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“I can feel them.” His voice is weak.
Celeste rushes up the stairs and is standing in front of the boy a heartbeat later. “You’re human?”
Brayden scrunches his face. “I am.”
“Show her what you can do, Brayden,” I coach him from below. He yawns widely before the ease of his shield surrounds us.
The look on Celeste’s face makes me smile. She turns back, looking at the rest of us. “What just happened?”
“Brayden is a shield, among other things,” I announce.
“Holy shit.” She covers her mouth after cursing in front of the kids. “What else can you do?”
The human boy shrugs. “I don’t really know. Where’s my mom?”
“I’ll take you to her.” Fran pulls the boy down the hallway toward his parents.
“Does their brother have an ability?” Celeste asks, back at my side.
“Telepathy.” I turn toward Thorne. “And he was able to locate Thorne earlier.”
“Damn. I got cheated. I don’t have an ability.” Celeste smiles as she speaks.
Amelia laughs loudly. “Anyone who’s ever met you knows you have an ability. It may not be superhuman, but you have the ability to show love to whoever you meet. You are kind, strong, and brilliant.”
“Awe, thanks, Mom,” Celeste answers with a laugh.
“The girls are right. We have to find Alex, which means finding Eudora,” Luna interrupts.
“What about Marnie?” Micah speaks for the first time. “She’s bound to know where her mother is.”
“Why do I feel so lost?” Celeste asks. “Who is Marnie?”
“Kragen and Eudora’s daughter,” Amelia answers, like it’s common knowledge.
“Do you think she’s still in this area?” I ask, already knowing the answer.
Everly turns toward Thorne. “Use your ability.”
“I don’t know how,” he answers.
The young vampire moves in front of him, wrapping her tiny hands around his. “Close your eyes,” she demands. Thorne follows instructions. “Picture Alex in your mind.” The energy in the room rises a few levels asEverly wraps her arms around Thorne’s waist, pulling him closer. The silence in the room becomes deafening as minutes pass before she pulls away, sucking in a deep breath. “I’m seeing a ship. It looks old but new at the same time. It looks like a ship that a pirate would live on.” Everly looks around the room. “Does that make sense?”
Luna, Micah, Thorne, and I make eye contact. The only pirate ship that we know to be fully operational and complete is in the possession of the lycan of Charleston, formerly owned by Kragen. “It makes perfect sense,” Micah answers. “Except, there’s no way in hell she has it. It’s under lock and key in Charleston.”
The energy in the room shifts, and everyone in the room feels it. “Someone’s here,” Everly whispers just as the doorbell buzz echoes through the house.
“I’ll get it,” Fran says, moving toward the closed door. “Hello. May I help you?” she says as the rest of us move behind her.
“Well, hello!” a familiar blonde girl answers. She looks behind Fran at the group of paranormal creatures who’ve surrounded the older vampire. “Perfect. It seems I’ve found most of you in one spot.”
I step in front of Fran. “What do you want, Marnie?”
“May I come in?”
Fran moves to my side. “Of course.” She motions to the living area.
Marnie sits in the same spot I occupied momentsearlier. “This is quite a room full, isn’t it?” She claps her hands like she’s at a performance.
