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The women all rode together in silence, Aurora, who had secured the keys from Elliott while Cassidy was still inside, drove, and Cadence sat next to her sister who cradled the baby Vampire like she was her own.
Cassidy’s tears stopped falling about the time they reached the outskirts of Kansas City, but Cadence could tell she was still profoundly upset by what had transpired. This was exactly what she’d been trying to keep her sister protected from. At sixteen, she technically wasn’t even old enough to have Transformed at all, and being just a child herself, how could anyone possibly expect her to understand what had just happened? Not only that, but Cassidy’s conversation with Willamina had left more questions than answers, and Cassidy couldn’t possibly expect them to take this child Vampire back to their apartment and let her live there, could she?
The entire team had basically kept radio silence as they traveled. In all of the hunts the
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