“Bingo,” the teen said.“I wonder why they’ve stopped looking for us?”
Zoe had been feeling on the verge of receiving a vision ever since lunchtime.That had been five hours ago.“Check the footage near the bridges and tunnels,” she requested, aiming the comment at Xan.
Her sister hurried to her computer and checked the footage she’d captured earlier.She focused on the cameras at all of the entrances to the city.“Soldiers were stationed near every bridge and tunnel,” she said after locating their enemies.“They’re the ones who’ve been searching Manhattan for us.”
“I have a feeling the latest knight and cambion reached Manhattan hours ago,” Zoe said uneasily.“It looks like Rahab was waiting for them to appear.”
“So they can capture them and force them to breed babies for their army,” Wynter said with a grimace.She instinctively put a protective hand on her abdomen.
“Should we teleport to the city and try to find them?”Amaros asked.He hated knowing one of his men was in danger and not being able to help him.
“I recognize this soldier,” Xan said, pointing at the screen.“He’s one of the ones who’s been searching Manhattan.”
“That’s Yonove,” Cam said.“He’s just a mid-level soldier of no great importance.”
“He’s heading to Rahab’s gym,” the cambion said, tracking him and three other soldiers.“Where’s his other guard?”she asked with a frown.“There should be four of them.”
They watched Yonove pause at the door to the gym, then enter.He returned a short while later, pale faced and shaking.
“Rahab’s in a temper,” Grace said when the enemy commander stormed out of the gym.Rage filled his red-tinged brown eyes.His chestnut hair was disheveled as if he’d run his hand through it.
“It looks like he just received some bad news,” Amaros said in satisfaction.“I hope my knight killed the missing soldier and escaped with his cambion.”
Xanthia followed her instincts and searched the footage she’d taken near the Henry Hudson Bridge.It took a couple of minutes before she spotted something.“Am I going crazy, or is that a headless body lying on the street in a pool of blood?”she asked.
“You’re not crazy, my mate,” Semi said.“I can see the head resting a few feet away.”
“It’s one of Rahab’s men,” Tolas noted.
“They just left the body there this time,” Kochab said.“They’re getting sloppy.”
“It’s not like there are any scientist left to take samples and discover they aren’t human,” Qi figured.
“It’s disrespectful to leave a comrade behind,” Jacquin said.“Or it is now that we don’t return to the Void when we die anyway,” he added.
Vic got up and crossed to the sideboard where they were keeping a tally of their enemies on a clipboard.“That’s eight down and only eighty-nine to go,” she said, gleefully changing the tally.“From the holes in Yonove’s and his guards’ clothes, the knight and cambion put up a hell of a fight,” she added, putting the clipboard back down.
“There were no signs of either of them near the bridge,” Tori said.“It looks like they got away.”
“But where are they going now?”Grace asked.Everyone turned to Zoe expectantly.Their matriarch was beginning to look like something bad was coming.Her expression had changed to dread.
“I can’t see it yet,” Zo said in frustration, wishing she didn’t have the weight of expectation resting on her shoulders all the time.
“Can you make Zoe some fresh coffee, Grace?”Amaros asked.“I’m sure she could use another snack, too.”
“Sure thing,” the kid said and leaped to her feet to hurry away.
Realizing the mystic needed a moment, everyone headed to the kitchen after her.
“Is Zo going to be okay?”Wynter asked.She was still getting used to seeing someone who received visions regularly.
“She gets a bit stressed when we expect too much from her,” Grace whispered.“I’d hate to have her talent.I’d cave under the pressure in a day.”
“Is there anything we can do?”Tol asked, rubbing his mate’s tense shoulders.Wynter sank back against him and he wrapped his arms around her.
“Just give her some space for now,” the kid said as she went through the motions of boiling water.
Amaros stayed with his mate.He held Zoe’s hand as she stared sightlessly at the computer screen.Xan had left it set to the camera that was aimed at the corpse of their enemy.A woman wearing several layers of clothing cautiously approached it.She crouched down, looked around, then started going through his pockets.
