We went out through the door at the top of the stairs. I'd made a note to peek and make sure it led out since it was a lower level but surprisingly it looked like it was accessible without setting off any alarms. The cool night air washed over me, calming my nerves, as we emerged from the back of the house.
"Two guards inside watching through the upper windows Syn, one on the ground level but he is looking at a magazine." Adam said going right into combat mode.
"Get closer, I'll throw up the shield, Lari throw up a spell to shield our presence, Adam, watch our asses."
After we had everything up, we walked out onto the green grass and into the shrubbery only stopping to fortify Larissa's spell before we headed for the gate. As we got closer the metal bars slid open to allow several dark colored SUV's through.
"Get in the bushes!" I shouted, remembering Ryder had been able to see through my glamour a few days ago. We held our breath as the cars drove past and with the last one going through, we scrambled and made it through the gate before it had fully closed.
"Let's go, Adrian's waiting," I said. When we had made it the mile and half on foot to the car Adrian was waiting in, I froze with my hand on the cars door handle. Hounds howled furiously. His hounds.
I turned to look back the way we'd come, sparing one last look at the dim lights in the distance before I opened the door and jumped in. I had to stop Ryder before he put us into a war we would never recover from.
Thirty Two
We sat in an abandoned warehouse, it wasn’t ideal but it was an indication that we were officially at the top of the Fae's persona non grata list. I paced, burning a hole into the concrete floor. Adrian sat watching me, he'd explained how the Demon had called and told him to be waiting for us.
"So let me get this straight, the Guild did attack the Fae?" I stopped pacing long enough to level Adam with a glare.
"It was someone from the Guild Syn, but they were off, we left the Guild an hour or so after the party got started. Figured the Darklands would be more alive and well we worried about you," he said shaking his dark head as he sat beside Larissa on an old ratty couch that had been left here.
"Explain off and thanks for worrying, next time stay where I send you," I said tapping my foot nervously. If we had in fact attacked the Fae I couldn’t fix this.
"I couldn’t tap their powers to stop them, they didn’t notice us either. Witches would have, Lisa was there and she was one of them. I couldn’t sense anything inside of them, as if they were dead?"
"Dead?" I asked to confirm and grinned. "That's actually good, well not that she's dead but it means the Guild didn’t do shit. We don't come back to life…" I spared a look at Adrian who was now sitting up on the hood of the broken down car that was stored in the warehouse, "Unless someone brings us back." I amended.
"That still doesn’t explain why they would be at the club attacking the Fae," Adam continued.
"Actually, it does," I said moving over to lean against the rusted car, hoping I wouldn’t need a tetanus shot after I did so, "If they thought we'd be able to figure out more about the murders and who was doing it, who would you take out first?"
"The Guild and then the Fae investigating it," Adrian said making us all turn in his direction, "What? It's who the Vampires would take out."
"Not helping Adrian," I said holding his gaze before dropping it, "So they killed Witches, somehow turned them to something cold and lifeless and had them attack the Fae, because there is no faster way to start a fucking war then to openly attack someone on their own turf. Whoever is doing this is starting a war and they know it. Smart, which makes this dangerous. The Guild should be on lockdown, if they are following protocol."
"Syn, you should get cleaned up a little more. You're still bleeding a little, are you sure you’re okay?" Adrian said huskily his eyes turning hard at the sight of blood.
"I got in a fight with a door, I've done worse," I said sharply. My head hurt, hell my entire body hurt right now as I came down from the Demon-Blood-Kiss high. My nose was still bleeding a bit, but I'd recover without any more magical help.
"You know, considering our line of work, you get hurt a lot Syn," Adam joked.
"We need a plan, Ristan said I needed to get close to Arianna and look at her—whatever the hell that means," I said absently.
"The Light Heir?" Adrian said before whistling, "Good luck, she's bouncing all over the place. First she was hiding and now she can't get enough attention."
"Do you know where she'll be tomorrow?" I asked hopefully.
"She'll be downtown, not sure where though. Ryder has the Fae on high alert. No one without clearance can get close to her without him knowing."
"Perfect, we have to figure out how to get around him then," I tapped my finger on my chin and shook my head discarding thought, after thought. "Okay, listen up. We need a plan and fast. We need to figure out where she will be tomorrow and we need to know like yesterday. We need a distraction team, something they wouldn’t see coming."