“Sinn, what are you doing?” Striding into the back room of Eric’s security office, Ella looked in disbelief at the expertly opened gun lockers. They were supposed to be the best and most secure available, un-crackable and strong enough to withstand Werewolves and even the much stronger Vampires and yet Sinn had managed to open them all to get to her weapons. Turning, Sinn finished putting the magazine back in her gun, slapping it home so she was sure it was locked in before chambering a round and sliding the weapon into her shoulder holster. “I’m leaving, Ella. That’s what I’m doing.” “Does Yoanna know?” “I do now.” Sinn’s breath caught as Yoanna swept into the room looking every inch the Queen even dressed for bed, amazingly sexy and just a little pissed off as she took in what she was doing. “I thought…&rdquo

Ella looked up from her book and glanced at her wristwatch as she heard Sinn enter the room. “Well I thought you would be gone longer than that… and no broken windows,” she grinned. “Sinn… what’s wrong?” Her teasing fell away as she saw the tense set of her friends whole body.“Nothing,” Sinn gritted out.Half expecting it to swing open at any second to admit Yoanna, Ella looked behind Sinn to the door. “Is Yoanna okay?”“She’s fine. Don’t worry, she’s still in one piece… and alive. Look, could you do something for me?”“I’ll try, what do you need?”“Do you know anyone around here that can do psychic profiling? Don’t work with them often myself. I do know some but it would take too long to get anything to them.”“There’s one I trust that’s helped us and the police before, bit of a recl

Once Sinn was sure that no one had followed her from the mansion, she pulled over at the side of the road out of sight of any passing traffic and turned off the engine. Her hand trembled as she shakily removed her helmet and hooked it over the handlebar before she could drop it. Closing her eyes, she raked in a shuddering breath and tried to hold back the tears that had been stinging her eyes and threatening to fall since she had seen Yoanna watching her from the library window as she’s started her bike and rode away. Even though it was something she had to do, though she was sure that Yoanna wouldn’t see it that way. Leaving her how she had, seeing the hurt and confusion in her eyes, had been the hardest thing Sinn had ever had to do. And in her life, she had had to do, and come to terms, with things that would have destroyed many people. She wished she could have told them, warned them with more than a cryptic note. But she cou

Sinn tightened her grip on the knife in her hand as she slowly walked across the thick carpet towards the huge bed that managed to dominate a room that was bigger than most people’s houses. She knew there was no real reason, other than to delay the inevitable, to go as slowly and as carefully she was, the carpet felt like it could have absorbed the sound of ten elephants walking across it, and with it still being early enough in the day all the Vampires, even the gorgeous one in the bed, would be trapped in sleep a while longer. It was the best time to sneak into the mansion undetected as the guards were all winding down and relaxed as the Vampires would soon be up and about and their shifts changed over. If Eric knew how lax his guards got there would be hell to pay and she was sure that her actions that night would result in some much needed changes to how they acted at such times. Not that it being the best time made it that easy th

As she started off across the huge expansive lawn with her four ‘escorts’, Sinn couldn’t help but look back up at the mansion to where Yoanna and Ella were watching from the library window. That it was the same window they had been at before when she had ridden away wasn’t lost on Sinn and she had the feeling it was deliberate on their part.Sinn had tried to persuade Yoanna and Ella to retire for the day as normal. The most she could get off either of them, was that they would see her and the others off and then they would go. She worried about both of them staying up late, Ella because of the baby and Yoanna for pushing herself too close to the limit where her body would just shut down. If that happened and she was somewhere where she was vulnerable it could be disastrous. Yoanna said she didn’t ‘have’ to sleep with the sun like the other Vampires usually did but already Sinn could feel it dragging at her from staying up past Vampir