QUERIES VI

"Perhaps, the younger woman is with her. The one she had taken back from your men some years ago." Kane suggested.

"Not my men. I can't control them. I had hoped to find her before the others."

"And what would you have done with her?" Kane demanded, his black eyes glittering dangerously.

Lefa shook his head. "I don't know. I thought I came to talk, but then I scented you, and I became very confused." He rubbed his forehead. "I began to think you were here to take our women and I wanted you dead."

"You came to the island in control, but then something happened. You had to have encountered him here," Kane said in alarm. That meant the master vampire was close, somewhere on the island, and no one knew. They were all in trouble.

"Who did you meet?" He asked.

"Not a vampire. An old friend. He had taken shelter here and was leaving because he realized the house was occupied by the Paltfic family." Lefa replied.

Kane kept his expression blank, but his heart jumped and pounded. Fear