Finding himself in the back of a cargo plane again wasn’t so bad this time. Cadon had absolutely no urge to go to the front of the plane and sit in the cockpit as he had both when Ryker had been flying them over to Washington from Russia or when his dad had been flying them back to Russia.Flying them to his death….This flight was relatively short compared to both of those, and the plane was bigger. It was also fuller. With all of the prisoners and the team he’d taken, there were plenty of bodies in the back, but there was also enough room for everyone to spread out and get comfortable--as comfortable as it was possible to be in the back of a cargo plane.His eyes kept wandering to Mallory. She was sitting by the woman he assumed was her mother, her legs tucked against her chest, he

Getting from the airport in Kansas City back to the headquarters building was a lot easier than getting out of California had been. When the cargo plane touched down, Ashley already had several SUVs waiting to take the team--including all of the prisoners--back to the LIGHTS headquarters building.They’d been gone for less than twenty-four hours, but it felt like a week. As soon as they arrived, Cadon headed into the building where the conference room was. It was the same location where his sister had disappeared into the portal right before they launched their attack on Alcatraz.The only person who’d gotten there before him was Jamie, and when he walked into the building to see him passionately kissing his wife, Cadon wanted to back out the door. He thought maybe he could go unnoticed, but Elliott walked in right behind him, and he certainly had n

 Cadon wandered back over to the building where he thought he’d find Jamie and Ashley. He just hoped he didn’t run into them making out again. Even though they didn’t look old, they were still his friend’s parents, and that was kinda gross, sort of like walking in on his own parents making out. Not that that would ever happen again. He pushed the thought aside. Sometimes it was hard to remember that his dad was gone. He just hoped that his sister was having some luck locating their mom.Cadon entered the building and heard voices coming from the office on the left right inside the door. Jamie’s office. The door was open, so he stuck his head in. Ashley and Jamie were sitting across from a couple he didn’t recognize. The male looked familiar for some reason

Sitting in Annastasia and Mallory’s living room--again--Cadon tried to stay quiet and let Jamie and Ashley answer all of the questions the girl had. Plenty of questions popped out of her mouth as they were talking about the pluses and minuses of becoming a Hunter. Mallory’s biggest concerns seemed to be actually having to fight Vampires and the pain that she would have to undergo in order to turn herself into a Hunter.“I have a medicine I will give to you after I give you the first shot, the Transformation serum,” Jamie was explaining. “I can’t give it to you until two minutes after the first shot, but most people don’t have a reaction until after those two minutes have passed anyway. For most people, the first Transformation shots aren’t painful at all. When some LIGHTS team members have chosen to have a second Transformation shot, later in their career, so

The penthouse was far quieter than Cadon had ever experienced before. At least, he couldn’t remember a time when his previous home wasn’t buzzing with noise of some kind. Whether it was his parents talking and laughing or loud music coming from his sister’s room, noise always filled the space. Now, he was sitting on a foreign sofa in a room that was painted the wrong color and had no decorations on the wall, and all he could think about was whether or not any of his family members would ever be in this home with him again.He’d decided to stop sitting in Christian’s office after a couple of hours of waiting for Jo to come back through the portal with his mom. It wasn’t that he didn’t have faith in either his sister or his mother. It was just… Ashley had told him the room was finished, and he’d needed to see it.