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2024-10-29 19:42:56The silver handcuffs fit well around wrists. Not so much around ankles, but they’d made it work. It hadn’t done anything to stop the screaming and cursing though. Jo’d ridden back to the makeshift headquarters with her eyes focused out the window, wishing that the cuffs were on the right person, and the one screaming at them to let her go right now was the Red Queen and not her aunt.
At first, they’d thought Cassidy just needed a few moments, and then she’d regain the memory of at least who she was, if not everyone else right away. But after they’d forced her into one of the bedrooms at the house in the middle of Nowhere, Russia, she’d continued to scream that she’d been kidnapped for another hour until Scott had finally given her a shot of something to make her sleep. Brandon was hopeful that she’d be herself when she opened her eyes again, but Jo had her doubts. Whatever Holland had done to her, it
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“Did she tell you anything at all about your mom?” Ryker asked, his tone sounding more understanding than any she’d ever heard him use before.Jo looked at him for a moment before she shook her head. But then… that wasn’t exactly true, was it? “Only that she didn’t have anything to do with her disappearance. She claims it wasn’t her, that she’s just a figurehead, and that she’s trying to stay out of it. I don’t believe her, though.”“You don’t?” he asked, not necessarily implying that he thought she should believe her, only clarifying.Wondering if there’d been something in her response that gave away that she did sort of believe Holland, she considered what Holland had said and how she’d felt about it at the time, how she felt about it now. “She said someone else was pulling the strings. Called him the puppet m
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Jo and Cadon stepped out of the way as a flurry of longtime LIGHTS members from the US rushed to the door to greet Heather. There were hugs and cheek kisses all around, lots of questions about where she’d been, what she’d been doing, and why she’d been MIA, as well as plenty of comparisons to people’s parents. It wasn’t until Elliott said, “We searched half of Africa looking for you! Were we even on the right continent?” that some indication of what had become of Heather leaked out.“Africa?’ the blonde asked. “Hell, no. I ain’t been in Africa for years. Too damn bright down there.”“Bright?” Mandy, Elliott’s daughter, who clearly didn’t remember Heather and had a similar reaction to Jo’s when the cowgirl had declared she, “looked just like her mama,” questioned as she stood next to her dad, her arms folded beneath her bosom
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As large as the house was that Lucas had managed to find for them, it wasn’t difficult for Jo to find a room without an occupant, even though many of the Hunters were sleeping now that the hunt was over, and the meeting afterward had dismissed over an hour ago. She lay on her back staring up at the foreign ceiling, wondering if she should watch the video of the attack from the perspective of someone outside first or sleep first and watch later.It was tempting just to close her eyes and see if sleep would come, but she took a few minutes to go over Elliott’s recording from the attack to see if the Vampire’s reaction was as odd as she thought it had been, considering how quickly her own troops were able to get into the fortress.Her suspicions were right. The Vampires had broken much more quickly than expected. In fact, many of them seemed to run the moment they realized they had been infiltrated. If these were the troo
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When her eyes flickered open, the room was much darker. A glance at the window, where thick curtains obscured much of the daylight, but not all of it, told her there was little to keep out at the present time, and that she had been asleep for much longer than she’d anticipated when she’d first sought out the room.Rolling over served to be more difficult than anticipated as well, mostly due to the arms around her waist. She had to assume she’d called him again, sent Zane another message in her sleep that had brought him here to lie next to her for no particular reason other than the fact that she’d asked him to, and he was never one to disappoint if he could help it.She hadn’t been fair to him recently, and she knew it. Thoughts of what she’d gotten herself into when she’d taken this assignment always left her stomach queasy, like she’d eaten bad deli meat or taken one too many turns on a
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“The way I see it, we’ve got three problems we’ve gotta solve, and only one of ‘em has to come first.”Jo tried to listen to what her uncle was telling her, but her mind was wandering back to what had just transpired with Zane a few hours ago. It was nearly the middle of the night again. This was the time she should’ve been sleeping, but she wasn’t. Instead, she was sitting in the same den where she’d had the conversation with Ryker earlier. He wasn’t present--probably fast asleep since he seemed to make a hell of a lot more sense most of the time than she did. Instead, she was joined by both of her uncles, Elliott having pried Brandon away from Cassidy’s bedside for a few moments, as well as Mikali, Mila, Cadon, Lucas, and Heather.“The first one we’ve got to solve is how to fix Cassidy,” Brandon said, getting a nod from his dad. Jo figured that was their fir
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Beginning of Volume 3: Queen Catcher Waking to the sounds of screaming was nothing new, and yet, every time it happened, Jo McReynolds felt her heart leap into her throat. Like every other night for the past few weeks, she tossed the blankets off of her legs and headed for the door, wishing she could do something to help but knowing that she was running to her aunt’s aid not because she could actually be of use but because she was obligated to do so. That and because, whenever Cassidy started screaming like this, it scared the bejesus out of everyone, including Jo. Her legs carried her down the hallway of the house they’d borrowed from Lucas’s Souled Vampire friend, Adrian, who wasn’t even there to sleep in his own bed. He had volunteered to track Holland’s car when it left the castle in Poland during the last attack. Now, they had a good idea where the Vampire queen was hiding, but
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“I just don’t think this is a good idea,” Lucas was saying when Jo sat down with him to talk about her plan to take most of her squad back to the United States for a mission to save Jamie Joplin and the other Guardians being held captive by President Crimson Crotch and his asshole lackeys.“Why is that?” Jo asked. “I’ve already told you how important this is. We can’t let him execute our people.”“No, I understand that, believe me. I do. I know this Jamie you speak of. He was a friend to Eliza when few others were.” Lucas’s eyes went to Elliott. It was no secret that Elliott and Eliza had never gotten along, but then Lucas’s wife rarely got along with anyone. He refocused on Jo. Elliott didn’t say a word. He certainly wouldn’t deny that he didn’t get along with
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“You just promised I could do somethin’ that’s damn near impossible, honey,” Heather said, her arms folded beneath her chest as she stared into Jo’s eyes, unblinking. “I can’t get Cassidy back that quickly. Hell, I’m not sure I can get her back at all.”“I know, Heather. And I’m sorry,” Jo assured her. “But I didn’t know what else to do. We have to help Jamie, and the only way Lucas would agree to it is if we took Cassidy with us. We can’t take her with us if she still doesn’t know who she is. So… you’ve got to fix her. And fix her fast.”Heather shook her head until her curls danced. “Nope, nope, nope. Ain’t gonna happen.”“I believe in you, Heather,” Jo said, knowing the
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How Christian went about opening the portal, Jo wasn’t sure. It was like he cast a magic spell of some sort, though, when Scott asked him how he had done it, all Christian said was, “Science.” The next thing she knew, there was a wavering light in the wall of the black tunnel. An orange boundary grew brighter around the edges, and then inside of that, there was a moving orange light that seemed like a flickering fire in the distance. It was slightly different than the portal they’d come through, but it was close enough, and she was in a hurry to get her mother home where she belonged.Christian went through first, followed by Cadence, Cassidy, and Scott. Ryker followed him, and Zane insisted that Jo go ahead of her. But she grabbed hold of his hand to make sure that he didn’t get left behind. If he couldn’t come through the opening for some reason, she was staying, too,
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“Do you want to hold your mom’s hand?” Jamie asked Mallory as she lay on the operating table in his office. Cadon couldn’t believe how quickly everything was beginning to look like it used to. Even with the American government under collapse and citizens taking it upon themselves to hunt down Vampires and dispatch them, despite the laws that were still on the records, furniture, and other supplies were not that hard to find if one knew where to look–apparently.“Yeah, I’d like to hold her hand,” Mallory replied. She was so nervous, Cadon could see her shaking from his spot behind Jamie and slightly to the Healer’s left. Annastasia was standing on her daughter’s other side and had no problem taking her hand.“It’ll be fine,” Jamie assured her. Cadon had lost count of how many times he&
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The angry monsters were coming at them, and Jo, Zane, Scott, and Cassidy were outnumbered at least ten to one. The chances of them being able to shoot all of the monsters dead before any of them died were slim to none.Thankfully, Cassidy didn’t have to shoot the monsters in order for her to get them out of their way. As Jo and Zane worked on shooting them, Cassidy used her powers to create a bubble around the monsters, one they couldn’t break through. Jo held her fire, afraid she might do something to mess Cassidy’s plan up. The men followed suit. The monsters were contained, but it wasn't clear how long they would stay that way, and they were still blocking the group from reaching the door, the only means of escape.For now.Cassidy directed Jo, Scott, and Zane to move behind her. “Get out
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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.
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Over her twenty-five-year-long lifetime, Jo had had to go to lots of places she would’ve rather never visited. She could think of several. The opera. A friend’s piano recital. The principal’s office. A cave full of bat poop. The gates of hell.Yep, through the doorway that led to hell had to be the least favorite place she’d ever gone that she had no choice but to travel to.Once they crossed through the doors, everything changed drastically, which was a shock to Jo because she thought the portal already seemed so much like hell itself. These tunnels that led down to the depths of despair were even more terrifying and lonely than anything she’d ever experienced before.“Are you getting a signal from Cass on your IAC?” Scott asked as Jo tried to keep her focus. All arou
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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
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Standing alone in the tunnel with no way of reaching the hole her mother had just disappeared through was more terrifying to Jo than she was willing to admit. Just a split second after her mother’s feet were gone through the opening, her heart started hammering in her chest, and she felt like she was going to throw up. But she took a second to assess the situation and reminded herself that she was okay. Lots of people knew where she was.That didn’t mean they’d be able to get her out.She knew her aunt could float her out, though. At least she hoped she would be able to. The thought that her powers might not work through the floor made Jo nervous. She took some deep breaths and waited.Only a few seconds had passed, but the panic was already there. “I trust you, Mom,” Jo whispered. &ldq
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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
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Jo could hardly believe that she was walking alongside her mother. She kept wanting to quiz the being beside her to see if she really was Cadence Findley McReynolds, or if this was some sick joke played on her by the Vampires. Maybe this was a demon that happened to look like her mom. Maybe it was a Vampire that someone as powerful as Holland was able to make look like her mom. It was just… surreal.“Do you know where we’re going, honey?” Cadence asked. “I’ve been up and down this corridor lots of times.”“You have?” Jo was surprised to hear that. “Yes, I think I know how to get out.”“Yeah, for the first… I don’t know how long… I kept trying to figure out how to get out, but after a while, I just sort of gave up, I guess. H
