All Chapters of The Clandestine Saga: Chapter 431 - Chapter 440

There was no explanation as to why the Guardian wouldn’t be able to see Cassidy’s signal. Confused, Cassidy asked, “Did you try sending for help?”“Tried… no answer….” The woman’s voice was a hoarse croak.“Brandon is getting help,” Cassidy assured her. “Just hang on.”She nodded, and Cassidy continued to puzzle over why she was able to get a message to Brandon but no one else could be reached by anyone inside of the tagging center.“Look, if this Brandon person is getting help, maybe we should hang back,” Dax suggested as they began to walk, weapons drawn, down the dark hall in the direction Cassidy believed would lead them back to the holding cells. She’d read some of the signage the night before and had an idea where it was that they kept the Vampires who had come in to be tagged. She remembered what she’d been told about no new Vampires coming in, b

The meeting was over and everyone except for Christian was sitting around chatting about nothing in particular when the sound of hurried footsteps approaching from the hallway caught their attention enough to make Elliott pause mid-sentence, which was significant to Cadence. A few seconds later, the office door burst open and Brandon flew in, out of breath. “Why the hell isn’t anyone answering their IACs?”“What are you talking about?” Cadence asked as everyone leapt to their feet. She’d been getting plenty of notifications all night from several different area leaders.“What’s going on?” Aaron asked already standing in front of Brandon even though a nanosecond earlier he’d been all the way on the other end of the table.“Cass… the tagging center. Something’s wrong at the tagging center.”Immediately, Cadence tried to reach her sister and had absolutely no luck even forci

Cadence slid in a pool of blood as she rounded the final corner approaching the office, barely keeping her balance. The crimson substance was everywhere. Her clothes were coated with it, mostly Aaron’s she assumed, even her hair. She tried not to think about it as she glanced around and noticed two Guardians she hadn’t even seen before lying very still on the ground, their eyes closed tightly in anguish. While she wanted to stop and see if there was anything she could do, she realized the only person who could currently help either one of them was trying to save a young Hunter, and if this Tara girl looked anything like Aaron had when she first caught him in the hallway, there was no way she was going to make it.Her boots crunched on the broken glass of the office door. She opened the blood splattered door on the right where the glass was still intact and followed the bloody footprints back down the hall toward the playroom.As she entered the room, Brando

Cassidy eyed the pile of ash on the floor near the rolly chair for only a moment, remembering the kindhearted nurse and wishing things had gone differently. The memories of what had happened to Lena would haunt her for years, she just knew it. For now, she couldn’t think about that. She sat down at the computer and moved the mouse, bringing the machine to life.Beside her, Dax picked up the receiver and jabbed at the numbers, his hand trembling. He sighed and hit the button to hang up and start again. The second time worked no better than the first, and he growled in frustration.“It’s okay,” Cassidy said, reaching out and stilling him. She gently pulled his hand away and dialed the extension.“Thanks,” he muttered. Aurora must’ve answered quickly because she heard him repeat Cadence’s message—or Jamie’s as the case may be—and hang up.By then, she was in the security interface of the compu

The computer wasn’t currently her friend, and Cassidy decided it was best not to randomly start punching in codes that could potentially lock it up altogether. In the distance, she could still hear the alarm that was doing its job and wished she could somehow communicate with it through telepathy.Brandon’s footsteps were discernible to her ear by now, and she heard him slow down as he approached the desk. “Jamie and Cadence are giving her the blood transfusion now,” he said, standing back a good two feet from the glass partition, his hands in his pockets. “They still don’t know if it’s going to work, but Cadence seemed to be in a good mood.”“Oh?” Cassidy asked, surprised to hear that.“Giddy, maybe. She’s probably exhausted and just doesn’t know it yet.”“Right,” Cassidy replied, definitely knowing the feeling.“I’m going to go see if Auror